From: "JD"
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,alt.binaries.schematics.electronic,sci.electronics.cad,sci.electronics.misc
References: <_sdS9.30070$p_6.2532697@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: E-mail from Korea, China or Taiwan no longer accpted
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:31:33 -0500
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"Stephen Shaw" wrote in message
news:pan.2003.01.07.00.42.24.574202@junkbuster.zzn.com...
> On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:38:18 +1100, Mike Harding wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:41:14 -0000, "Mjolinor"
> > wrote:
> >
> >>"PCS Electronics" wrote in
> >>message news:EUdS9.2461$tQ1.122542@news.siol.net...
> >>> It is different with hotmail, they were hacked, the spammers got all
> >>> their emails, in alphabetical order ;-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Which would explain why the email addresses I set up for my kids get spam
> >>even though they have never done anything other than talk to each other.
> >>I had to stop them using hotmail because of all the awkward questions
> >>like "daddy what is viagra" and "why is someone sending me emails of
> >>ladies with no clothes on".
> >
> > My younger son uses an unusual name for his Hotmail account, something of
> > the nature of "toupeed_volcano" and he receives virtually no spam at all!
> > :)
> >
> > Mike
>
> Most spammers filter the names they trawl for names that are not 'real
> people' so my address gets very little spam despite it being just what it
> is a trwaler for spambots.
>
A long time ago, my Unix finger server was enabled on my firewall (no-no),
and it also wasn't compiled correctly. It produced some bogus usernames
that are STILL being used by spammers, and it was over 5yrs ago that the
finger server was disabled.
John