(Yeah, I know, late response....) On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 08:06, Richard Braakman wrote: > So, what's the difference? What did you do with the erols.com address > that you didn't do with the suespammers address? Not sure, really. But as I said, most of it seems to be single opt-in crap. > > > I realize that spammers could be avoiding the suespammers address (it'd > > make good business sense, after all), but most of my spam seems come > > from people plopping my address into web pages that don't bothing doing > > double confirms, or from APNIC space. > > Why would people use your address that way? I don't know. Maybe it's a typo (maybe there is a derobert1@erols.com, for example). Maybe someone doesn't like me (don't know of anyone). I know one time, my much younger brother (must of been nine or younger at the time...) did it. > > My theory is that the address harvesters are trying to be smart and are > deleting the "spam" substring from your address. Some poor bastard at > suemers.org is getting all your spam :) Could be. But that would imply that spammers already de-obfuscate addresses, and thus obfuscating @lists.debian.org would just be an annoyance to legitimate users. Hmmm... suemers.org is not registered. Tempting, very tempting, to register it and find out.
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