Re: [OT] RFC 822?

[Gary Turner <kk5st@sbcglobal.net>]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:21:03 -0600, Gerald V.Livingston II wrote:

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>If a robot is intent on scanning for
>valid addresses and chooses to search only for valid user names from 3
>to 6 characters using the alphabet only, no numerals, underscores, or
>full-stops then we are looking at (3^26)+(4^26)+(5^26)+(6^26) or
>172,076,350,440,456,172,706 messages in the queue. 

Uh, I think that's 26^3 + 26^4 + 26^5 + 26^6 = 321,271,704, which is
still a big number.
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