Hello Leif, On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:33:46 -0700 GMT (16/03/2004, 00:33 +0700 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote:
LG> Long as you've made the username part sufficiently complex as to avoid LG> accidental random hits. LG> Something like TBx84374ndms etc. Well, you see my email address. I don't think there will be a random hit. LG> Otherwise you'll have a false positive. When I created my daughter's LG> domain name and set the catchall e-mail address to dump into my home LG> mailbox, I received spam on it in less than 48 hours, New domain names can be looked up by bots, and it is easy to just put something in front, which will be caught by the catch-all. LG> and there aren't any real mail addresses on it, nor have any been LG> used. (i.e. I never used an e-mail address from her domain). Bots routinely search whois databases. Well, they are on the net, aren't they? f'up2tbot... well, I haven't registered this address with TBOT. :-( -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Some people have a photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.04.7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
