Hello Jason, Friday, March 5, 2004, 9:54:50 AM, you wrote:
JG> Yeah, and here's the kicker. He personally has two separate email JG> accounts. One is published in every Thomas Register, trade journal, JG> phone book, etc... No brainer for spam there. It's also the one he JG> uses as his primary account. The other address is unpublished and JG> "rarely used", according to him, so it should receive very little or no JG> spam at all in his opinion. Howver (anyone surprised?), both are JG> getting the identical same spam at the same time, so he has concluded in JG> his mind that someone has either broken in to our network and JG> "harvested" the addresses, or someone internally (should I feel pressure JG> here?) is doing something fishy on purpose. Just out of curiosity -- you might hit the search engines for that "rarely used" account, and see if it is posted anywhere. If anywhere, then you have a ready answer for him. Ditto Yahoo mailing lists and Usenet, if he's found his way there. Similar example: My wife "never" posted her email address anywhere, but started getting spam. Did a search, and found that she replied to someone on a bulletin board somewhere, and that made her email address available to the spammers. And once in the spam databases, there's no turning back the clock... Bob Menschel
