[ale] curious spam

[jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net (Jeremy T. Bouse)]

    I've been with Bellsouth/AT&T since July '06 and have never used my 
provided email address either and all it ever gets is spam. I don't even 
bother forwarding it anywhere because of that fact. I'll look every 
couple of months to see if AT&T sent anything, or if more frequent if 
I've got nothing better to do than weed through spam, otherwise I don't 
bother with it.

Geoffrey wrote:
> So, I'm quite curious.  I changed my dsl to bellsouth and in doing so, 
> you must create an email address of the form user at bellsouth.net, which I 
> did.
>
> Beyond that effort, I do not use this email address, but I've set it up 
> to forward to one I do use as Bellsouth/AT&T says they will send 
> administrative emails to that address.
>
> It's not been a month and already I'm receiving spam to that email 
> address.  How is this even possible?  Is AT&T/Bellsouth publishing these 
> addresses in some way?
>
> The email address is not 'intuitively obvious to the casual observer,' 
> thus I don't think it's an automated email generator that's sending me 
> the spam.
>
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