On 03/12/02, Stijn De Preter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Over the past months, we have been receiving an increasing number of
> spam mails, which are sent to the group owner' address. The owner and
> moderators never requested this facility and we never authorised yahoo
> to distribute our address for commercial purposes.
It's quite possible that Yahoo is not involved in this at all.
Many spammers do what's called a "dictionary attack," sending
mail to various combinations of words to see if the address is
valid. Being spammers, they don't care whether the recipient
is interested or not, as long as the mail goes somewhere.
--
J.D. Falk "The kick defines the beat,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the bass defines the groove."
-- Phil Lockwood
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