On Sat, 31 May 2003, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Terry writes: > > > At least one of them is a combination of letters > > and numbers that I would have expected to > > resist most dictionary spam attacks. > > To whom have you sent e-mail from that address?
In several cases, *no* one. That is, these were test accounts I set up for my own purposes and had never used to communicate with others. > If they didn't use a dictionary attack, and they didn't harvest the address, > how did they get it? Beats me. Perhaps a more sophisticated dictionary attack than I would have expected. Or maybe the ISPs sold them. Or got hacked. Who knows? I'm just reporting that it is happening, and routinely. I hear from enough other people of similar experiences to know that this is not an isolated phenomenon. -teg
