[ale] curious spam

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

It is randomly generated crap. Several people have created gmail accounts to
test with addresses like sdolihjerndsj at gmail.com and
s7fl0sm3bhks5 at gmail.comand as soon as the accounts exist, they get
crap.

I am _SO_ ready for IPv6! That will cut the feet out from under a sizable
chunk of the spam process and make tracking the rest for public pummeling
far easier.

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
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.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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