>It may be spammers refining their listing to reduce the cost and time of >sending to bad addresses, or meta-spammers collecting addresses to sell >to spammers.
But this just doesn't make sense to me. They can do this refining by sending an actual spam ad. They will still get the same bounce errors that they can trap to test for results, and they will still get the same people emailing back complaining to stop. So why waste a good open relay on a spam "test" when the spam itself can act as a test. Think of it this way... if you think you can break into someone's house and rob them... will you do a "test run" by breaking in, looking around to decide what things you want to steal... and then leave without taking anything? No, if you are going to leave tracks that you broke in (email logs and people bitching that your mail server is an open relay), then you might as well take what you can while you are there, because you probably won't get a 2nd chance. It just doesn't make sense to me... but like I said, I've given up trying to figure out spammer logic. They seem to live in their own little world. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
