Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I divert all my junk mail into a separate folder, and periodically >check to make sure there isn't any real mail in there, before I flush >it away. I have noticed for a long time that the spam subjects often >contain the number 1443, or are addressed to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED], >which is not a real email address. > >Why 1443?
It's just a random "hash-buster" that spammers put in to try to fool some kinds of filters. You've probably been hit by one spammer using that number a lot. If you search news.admin.net-abuse.sightings (use google: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.sightings) for "1443" you'll get a lot of results. But you'll get even more with "1442". More still with "1444". I didn't try any other numbers but I expect the trend would continue :) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
