Email hosed - bet I'm not the only one!

Adrian Mink plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:17:44 -0700


Only use our powers for good...  ;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Henry" <shroompicker2000@cox.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Email hosed - bet I'm not the only one!


<snip> 
> Off the top of my head, this may be handy for a spammer in that they can 
> create dozens of e-mail accounts, say on Juno or Roadrunner or Qwest or 
> whoever, then create one Cox account, and spam through all the third 
> party services.  Slowly each of the third party ISP's will cancel the 
> account, but the spammer has dozens of others to make up for it.  It 
> wouldn't be hard to imagine a tool that keeps track of addresses 
> successfully sent and not sent as well.  The spam content will probably 
> contain a different Cox business website where they could buy the 
> product, just in case the spam-center account might be cancelled.
> 
> Be glad I'm a whitehat.  :-P
> 
> --Alexander
> 
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