Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:55:00 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mysterious emails Message-ID: <20021105165500.GA1254@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20021105122446.GA98973@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20021105115907.GA1234@raggedclown.net> <20021105122446.GA98973@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:24:46PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:59:07PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > I wonder if anyone can throw some light on this. > > I get a *lot* of emails addressed to non-existant users > > on my domain "raggedclown.net". They all follow a pattern > > > > A single alphabetic character followed by 3 numbers. > > e.g. a1025, b3471 > > > > Now why is is anyone doing this ? These are very unlikely names, > > and non of the normal aliases are tried. I don't think it is a DoS > > either, since although they come in bursts they are usually in groups of > > up to 7 or so...and not every day..which is not going to grind me to a halt. > > These are almost definitely the result of incompetent spammers trying > to harvest e-mail addresses from mail archives on the web or some > such. They would seem to be completely unable to distinguish between > an e-mail address and a message ID --- eg. the mesage I'm replying to > has the ID number: > > 20021105115907.GA1234@raggedclown.net > > You can see where the bogus addresses come from... > Ah well, they obviously never bother to notice that i automatically reject them. Incompetent spammers .. :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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