From: R.P. Aditya (aditya@dnai.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 11:00:56 PDT
Not to defend PacBell or any other ISP explicitly, but spammers are also
resorting to more brute-force methods. In many cases, they have a list of
*usernames* culled from many, many domains, which they combine with different
domains still to produce ever newer lists. So if you kept "jives" as your
username at your new ISP, say pacbell.net, and if "jives@cchem.berkeley.edu"
had ever received spam in the past, the likelihood of "jives@pacbell.net"
getting spam during a "run" is quite high if pacbell.net is a domain spammers
targeted, which it is...
Adi
In message <sb614781.096@mail.cchem.berkeley.edu>, "John Ives" writes:
> I would have to second Ian's comments about Pac Bell selling email lists. I
>can honestly say that I have never given the email address to anyone (haven't
>even mentioned it to my wife), and yet I still get messages to that box. I am
> dealing with it by auto-filter to the bit bucket, but that is still ridiculou
>s.
>
> John
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> >>> Ian Crew <icrew@socrates.berkeley.edu> 07/27 9:19 AM >>>
> >I live in San Francisco and watched my ISP die a slow death over 2
> >years (Sirius->Firstworld->?).
>
> To complete that line:
> Sirius->Firstworld->Mindspring->Earthlink....
>
> >Have you heard anything about Pac Bell for POP access? (I happen to
> >be looking for one, too.)
>
> I actually have a PacBell account thanks to my DSL line.
>
> If you're referring to POP in the "Point of Presence" (i.e. dialup
> phone number) access, they're pretty good--they've got local numbers
> throughout most of California.
>
> If you're referring to POP in the "Post Office Protocol" (i.e. e-mail
> boxes) sense, they are REALLY awful. Though I've NEVER given anyone
> my PacBell address, my mailbox there gets flooded with tons of spam.
> From what I've been able to figure out (through talking to other
> PacBell account holders), they're selling their addresses to
> spammers--newly created accounts often start getting spam in less
> than an hour, which is much too quick for a random search to find
> them.
>
> Ian
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