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Originally Posted by Rob C
If you then have an easily guessed dictionary user name, that's it you are on a list.
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I'm far from convinced by that argument, although of course I can't prove it either way. Once this started with my Tesco account, the number of spam messages increased exponentially - presumably as they sold on the stolen list of email addresses to other people. Eventually I was forced to abandon my Tesco email account, as it was receiving about 100 spam messages a day - and I had been very careful not to disclose my email address in Usenet or anywhere else.
BTW my email address is of the form
joe.bloggs23@ntlworld.com (heavily munged). Another interesting thing - which I also noticed at Tesco - was that only my primary email address gets the spam. None of the secondary ones I created receive any of it. (Yes, I've turned off the spam filter for all of them.) Which tends to support the theory that somebody has obtained a list of primary email addresses I'm afraid - especially as some of the seconday email addresses would be much easier to generate randomly than mine.
I'll check back tomorrow and see how this thread develops.
Brian