Both of which are reasonable, particularly given the recent Blue Security debacle that showed that it was possible for the spammers as well as the spammees to coordinate their information.  It might be in a spammer's best interest to pursue either of your suggestions.
 
However, I still think it is more credible to assume that this is a case of the spammer being simple-stupid instead of uber-clever.
 
Andrew 8)
 


From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John T (Lists)
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam

My thought is they are either building a db of valid names or testing delivery techniques.

 

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-----Original Message-----
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 3:46 PM
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On Jun 6, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Steve Guluk wrote:



We're getting the same and today it started hitting a different account (Domain).

 

What are these things? I thought exploratory, maybe looking for replies to build a DB for a later spam wave? Their not malicious in content and look like someone's virus working incorrectly. But, I doubt they are really so benign. 

 

Any understand their purpose?

 

 

On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:32 AM, Goran Jovanovic wrote:



I started seeing these messages Monday (yesterday) morning EDT. The from

and to are the same (ie you sent it to yourself). I am tagging it but

there is not enough stuff to push it into DELETE territory.

 

 

So no one has any idea what the purpose of these emails are?

Random numbers for no apparent reason...?

 

Regards, 

 

 

Steve Guluk

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