At 11:16 PM +0200 6/6/02, sascha  imposed structure on a stream of 
electrons, yielding:
>now i got that. thanks to 1.8xxx...
>
>am i right in thinking that when one of these accounts would exist,
>the mail would still get rejected?


Yes. That's the good part of it. You probably don't want the mail 
that's being sent by someone who is trying to send to anyone who 
exists.

>
>23:10:20 1 SMTP-019([216.153.153.186]) SPAM? Recipient 
>'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: sending host is blacklisted, "The host 
>is suspected in address harvesting"
>23:10:20 1 SMTP-019([216.153.153.186]) SPAM? Recipient 
>'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: sending host is blacklisted, "The 
>host is suspected in address harvesting"
>
>and, one last question
>
>any of you have any experience how long
>these harvesting programs continue until
>they give up? this is pretty annoying.

What year is this... 2002... I can say from experience that they will 
keep coming at you for at least 5 years, although from a continually 
changing source.

Some experimentation with creating new addresses at Hotmail indicates 
that they have dictionary attackers hitting them about twice as fast 
as they get actual mail for actual users.

-- 
Bill Cole                                  
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