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[OM] Re: Paging John Hermanson

Subject: [OM] Re: Paging John Hermanson
From: savvo <zuiko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:20:42 +0000
Chris Barker wrote:
> Agreed, Simon, but headers can be forged very easily and therefore  
> might not be of any use to those looking for spam targets.  My  
> contention, therefore, is that web crawlers do not bother their ugly  
> little virtual heads with headers but with the rich harvest of near- 
> certain emails in the content.
> 
> But whatever the reason, only one email address (of around 10) gets  
> spam.  What is very irritating is that it is my dotMac address, one  
> which I cannot change easily :-(.
> 

I have found, and I have about 18 months of experience to back this up,
that any valid address containing the word 'spam' will not get spammed.

e.g. my usenet identity changes monthly in the format
news.spam.dec05@xxxxxxxxxxx and has never had an attempted delivery.

-- 
Chris

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