[ale] OT(ish) Sold or stolen?

[Horkan Smith]

Yup, that sounds like somebody had good reason to believe that address was real.

later!
   horkan

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 01:05:07PM -0700, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 2014-09-03 12:56, Horkan Smith wrote:
> > At least in my case, it wasn't targeted random - I got *thousands* of machine-generated random usernames, probably tens of thousands in the logs.  One or two of 'em happened to match something I'd used, purely by chance.
> 
> Ah, I see.  I actually very rarely get those.  Most of the spam is aimed
> at an actual username of some form (frequently not one that even exists
> on my server, for example "accountant at ..." or "purchasing at ...").  I
> almost never get one that targets some random junk.  But I got a run of
> over 200 hits in three days to the exact address that I supplied to AT&T
> even though none of the attempts resulted in a successful delivery (a
> successful delivery would feed back that the address was valid, all the
> attempts were rejected).
> 
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