On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:02:41 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really? Who do YOU think the worst offenders are? > > Did you ever wonder why everybody who signs up for a hotmail or a > yahoo account gets dumped on with tons of spam?
How could I possibly have ever wondered about something that exists only in your imagination? My wife has a yahoo address. She gets less than 7 spams a week there. > Could it be that > hotmail and yahoo sell email addresses to spammers? Or, it could be that they don't. > People who use > many of the lesser-known free email services only seldomly get > spammed. Really. > We may of course most reasonably suspect that yahoo sells > email addresses to spammers because they actively promote and they > host lots of porn sites. I may of course most reasonably suspect that yahoo does not sell e-mail addresses to spammers... regardless of some non-sequiter about porn sites. > Many spammmers use yahoo and hotmail email addresses. > Some of the spams actually originate from yahoo and > hotmail servers. Just for you, I disabled my spam filters for the last 24 hours. Guess what. Out of 45 spams, NOT ONE came from yahoo or hotmail... yet, one did come from an IP traced to the DoD Network Information Center. Hmmm... I get more spam from (presumably cracked) government computers than I do from yahoo and hotmail combined! If you're interested, see http://wizard.dyndns.org/spammer.txt You may get a lot of spam with fake hotmail, yahoo and aol return addresses, but that doesn't mean anything except that spammers think of those first when inventing a From: address. -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
