Only use our powers for good... ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Henry" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 6:15 PM Subject: Re: Email hosed - bet I'm not the only one! > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >