>
> I looked it up on Dejanews, and found it on a FAQ. It wasn't *even* a valid
> address, it was a message id! The FAQ maintainer had quoted Usenet articles
> verbatim into his FAQ, and spammers couldn't tell the difference between
> message id's and real email addresses.
Yes, but a message id is something@domain.name.ext so if the searcher is
looking for the regular expresion " *@* " and making that their list of
names, they will get a lot of ID's - of course they don't care, they send
thousands! and they can sell them to other nuts as mail addresses, who is
to know if you don't look close, and know the format used by every ISP.
(I hate spam)
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