Re: what about ip's

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

"David Smith" <dsmith@top-10.com> writes:

> my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does
> anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been
> used can have spam without the ip giving the address out?

Is it a fairly simple username, like dsmith?  Those can get caught by
spammers blindly sending to common usernames.

Now, if the username were something like hkja89ZJNhks8S12 and got
spammed, someone in the organization is probably selling usernames,
but it could just be a rogue employee.

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