On 2003.01.27, Jerry Asher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure that keeps the new email address from being screwed up, but at the > risk of hijacking someone's email away from them. > > So I figure out Dossy's aolscreen name, I cons together your daughters > name and guess your password, and then I get to steal your email.
Sure, if you can guess the password, you effectively own the account. Hint: don't use passwords that are easily guessable. (It's how I managed to recover [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- someone else managed to register it first, but foolishly made the password easy. I have not been so lucky with [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...) If only I could get the [EMAIL PROTECTED] screen name ... but alas, either someone already has it, or AOL won't allow a 5-letter screen name anymore. > If I am getting email I don't want I do have someways of tracking it > down and stopping it. If your email just stops one day and you don't > realize it for a day, or a week, what are you going to do? How will you > ever fix that? Check it periodically? How else do you ever know if a service is working? I'll periodically have a machine of mine (out on the net) send me an email to ensure that (1) network connectivity works, (2) my MTA is running correctly, (3) my email-to-pager gateway is working, (4) my pager service (archevil -- I mean, Arch Wireless) is still dispatching radio service from their towers ... -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
