On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, TonyTebby wrote:
> No surprise - a lot of access providers sell all e-mail addresses > systematically. Unlikely. It is business suicide to do this. Most providers couldn't, wouldn't, and fully understand the costs of doing so. We don't, and since 80% of incoming mail is spam, we have to support 12 mailservers instead of 3. Those extra 9 mailservers are VERY expensive. Delays for filtering spam is VERY expensive (financially, and in terms of support, mail delays, lost custom, etc) What actually happens is that spammers separate the usernames from the domain. They don't sell and trade "email addresses", they trade login names, in the belief that if you use a username one place, you'll use it other places, or other people will use the same name. It's certainly more statistically likely than random letters to send mail to ALL known login names at EVERY domain. Dave _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
