On 25 Dec 00 at 20:32, arachne-digest wrote:
> From: "Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That particular account forever carried spam mail, porno offers, get
> rich quick MLM, you name it garbage. Despite the obvious inference that
> this was due to this one out of the five being registered via their US
> server, any suggestion their security was lax, or someone was feeding
> details out to the spammers, Cserve point blank refused to consider this
> a possibility. The account was for an incoming mailbox only, and there
> were only ever three e-mails sent FROM the account, it was never used
> on a newsgroup or list.
Don't know how Compu$erve does it, but for most ISP's running on *NIX type
of system, if they allow anonymous ftp access, then it's fairly easy to
get hold of a user list.
I have one email address on my ISP that I use strictly for incoming mail.
Mainly I use it to send stuff from my office to my home. I have never
posted to any newsgroup or mailing list from it, nor advertised it on a
web page. Yet it sometimes gets spammed.
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