[ale] curious spam

[hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> I find this terribly disturbing, as it suggests to me that AT&T is
> somehow publishing these email addresses somewhere.
>
>   
No, it's actually much simpler than that, as Jim K. suggested.  Create 
any e-mail user account on a well-known domain and it'll get spam just 
by virtue of having the account name be made of...ASCII characters.  
What should disturb you is the sheer volume of spam that is implied.