Re: [tlug] Email address munging in the TLUG archives (C&C)

[Tod McQuillin <devin@example.com>]

> > > Even there, I should note that I do have a "closely guarded" e-mail
> > > address (for my keitai)
> > [..]
> > > I don't know how spammers got it, but get it they did.
> >
> > Your keitai provider or some company that they share your address with
> > a) sold it, or b) got it stolen.

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Darren Cook wrote:

> Too cynical IMHO. I believe the keitai spammers just generate variations 
> on, and combinations of, common words and see what bounces. And I would 
> assume they split the task and then sell their findings to each other.

That's plausible enough except that my keitai email address leaked out 
somehow and it's a combination of one unusual string and one very unlikely 
one.  I don't think any automated email address generation algorithm could 
have easily guessed it.
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Tod McQuillin