Andrew Porter wrote: > Are there people out there really pinging mail servers once every - say > - 6 hours with made up user names to see if they exist ? How many
> It's fruitless and I'd be surprised if anyone could be bothered - there > are far easier ways to harvest email addresses. It is not fruitless. The fact that they do it in and of itself proves it is worthwhile. And it is not just about harvesting email addresses, but also about finding valid login names. And then you can brute force a password. The same philosophy as with profiting from spam applies. As long as 1 in every so many attempts succeed it's worth doing. Greetings, Jeroen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
