On 2007-Nov-26, at 14:14 , William Josephson wrote:
Probably some spammer mistaking message IDs like <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for addresses.
Makes sense. The address harvesters are pretty stupid. E.g., I use plus-detail addresses on my internet draft submissions, and regularly see spam sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a result of harvesters not parsing [EMAIL PROTECTED] correctly.
I'm slowly moving my mailing list subscriptions over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , to take advantage of the spammers lack of RE-fu :-) Sadly, there is still quite a bit of list management software that also doesn't grok full RFC[2]822 address syntax.
While the '+' hack helps circumvent the harvesting, bayesian filters are your only practical defense.
--lyndon
