I’m getting more and more email as:

To: “joeb...@example.com” <joeb...@example.com>

anyone know why there’s an increase in this?  Did Exchange recently get broken 
so that it’s not populating the Addressbook properly?

I noticed that even legitimate promotional mailers (like 1800petmeds.com) are 
doing this… Even though when you sign up, you give them your full name.

It used to be a reliable trigger for spam (because a lot of harvesters ONLY 
deal in email addresses and don’t bother collecting the fullnames, since they 
mechanically scrape websites, without knowing how to parse anything but email 
addresses themselves—and sometimes not even those correctly, since I’ll see 
Spam addresses to Message-Id: values, References: values, etc.

Thanks,

-Philip

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