>>>>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:13:14 +0000,
>>>>> Craig Cockburn <craig@scot.demon.co.uk> said:
Craig> What I don't understand is why I get such a large amount of
Craig> spam addressed to "message" when I've never posted using this
Craig> address and it isn't a normal address like "postmaster" or
Craig> "webmaster".
It could be some stupid software that found a string like
message@yourdomain someplace and then put it on a spam target
addresses CD that was sold. I have seen spam trying to be delivered
to Message-IDs and other random strings that ended up having @domain
in them.
-- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
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