Re: what about ip's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 16:06, David Smith wrote: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-Type: text/html; [ dsmith_sig1.GIF] people here tend to regard stuff like your mail as spam already ... Uli -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RIbvwVdGSYi8Mq8RAkhUAJ0RhX2bE53lUc0x0kmYeA/NbJXmoACffuJw uiZRroGpURImW107NgWFAuE= =z8SS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
what about ip's
i've had cable connectivity with charter.net for more than 1 year. until yesterday i've never had need of an email acct there. i planned on using the address at charter when the spam at my top-10 acct became unbearable. when i finally got my log-in info for the charter acct. i logged in and to my surprise there were already more than 200 spams waiting for me. my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been used can have spam without the ip giving the address out? thanksDavid Smith dsmith_sig1.GIF
Re: what about ip's
On approximately Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:06:15AM -0400, David Smith wrote: i've had cable connectivity with charter.net for more than 1 year. until yesterday i've never had need of an email acct there. i planned on using the address at charter when the spam at my top-10 acct became unbearable. when i finally got my log-in info for the charter acct. i logged in and to my surprise there were already more than 200 spams waiting for me. my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been used can have spam without the ip giving the address out? From a lot of the spam I get at my charter.net account it seems to be that spammers just use some sort of dictionary and add that on the front of popular domain names. Somebody probably wrote a Perl script and sold it on Ebay! -- Josh McKinney| Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org -- | They that can give up essential liberty Linux, the choice -o) | to obtain a little temporary safety deserve of the GNU generation/\ | neither liberty or safety. _\_v | -Benjamin Franklin
Re: what about ip's
David Smith writes: my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been used can have spam without the ip giving the address out? Did you use 'dsmith' as the user name for the charter.net account? If so the answer should be obvious. Hint: 99% of my spam is addressed to non-existent users. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: what about ip's
David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been used can have spam without the ip giving the address out? Is it a fairly simple username, like dsmith? Those can get caught by spammers blindly sending to common usernames. Now, if the username were something like hkja89ZJNhks8S12 and got spammed, someone in the organization is probably selling usernames, but it could just be a rogue employee. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Women were made to be loved, not to be understood.