On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:57:14PM -0700, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > Mark Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's interesting to me is that I never use my > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" account. I don't think I've used it once, > > ever. This may, in fact, be the first email that it's ever been > > used in. > > This isn't the first time I've heard of this happening. My stepfather > started receiving spam at his Earthlink account before he had sent his > first e-mail with it. There's a leak somewhere it appears. We'll give > them the benefit of the doubt that they aren't selling out their > subscribers.
It was more than likely just a case of "dictionary" spamming. One domain that I host is continually hit with these things. Basically the spammer sends spam to a list of username's (valid or not) at the domain. Most of the messages bounce and double bounce, but the message gets through to any account that actually does exist. Very irritating. Cory -- Cory Wright Stand Blue Technology http://www.standblue.net/ _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
