Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:08:50 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: spam, spam, and more spam
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Ted White wrote:

> 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.)

I just got an interesting one today.  The "address" was the name part of
an address I used a long time ago at a client site.  The domain part of
the address was my aginc domain (all mail to aginc.net comes to me).

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."