Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:42:23 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: spam, spam, and more spam
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> A list I'm on - small presses, but not skiffy - one of the folks brought =
> up the offer he/she had received for 14,000,000 email addresses on a CD.
>
> Did not have clue as to what sort of firestorm they would be hit with =
> should they make use of the offer.  Luckilythere are a few folks on the =
> list who were able to do some remedial education, gentle, but remedial.
>
> Yes, there are *some*  well-meaning - but without internet savvy - =
> innocents out there.

Some of the spam I get has, in its list of recipients, variations on my name
and e-address.  Makes me wonder if addresses are being computer-generated,
rather like its equivilent, telemarketer phone calls, uses computer-generated
phone numbers.  (Try every possible number in an exchange.  Among other
things, you get through to the "unlisted" numbers that way.)

--Ted White