Jedi/Sector One writes: > Speaking of spammers, I just received a spam whoose recipient was >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . What's wrong with it? Nothing except that this >has never been a real mail address and I've never filled any form with >anything similar. > > The host name is the reverse DNS name assigned to the IP of my gateway. > "minidentd" is a generic fake user name sent by my identd server and >nothing else. > > It looks like spammers are always experimenting new silly ways of guessing >valid email addresses.
btw it's unlikely this is picked up from an ident scanner -- IMO, more likely an MTA somewhere did an ident lookup, put it in the Received headers, and that got archived somewhere on the web where a spambot then picked it up. --j. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
