RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Are spammers idiots??

[John Shacklett]

We just reclaimed an old domain name. We had it for a couple of years, then it expired and some bandits in the Philippines grabbed it and held it hostage, and when it expired again we grabbed it back. The day, and I mean the very day, that I put that domain in as an alias for our primary domain, I started receiving a flood of crap for employees that left more than five years ago. I was astounded.   Talk about firing blanks.   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn \ WCNet Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Are spammers idiots?? I've been clearing some mail accounts that customers have abandoned, haven't checked their mail for a couple months or longer.  It's not unusual to find 4000 messages or more, 20 MB or more, ALL of it spam.  No one on a dial-up connection is going to wait for all that mail to download, and nobody using WebMail has the patience to wade through all that debris.   My point being that spammers can easily overload a mail server, sap up all the drive space if some kind of spam control isn't in place.  What would be the point?  They're cutting their own throats, so to speak.   Glenn Z.