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[SC-Help] Re: And like that...............

Martin Edwards Martin.Edwards5 at btinternet.com
Fri Apr 9 19:21:11 EDT 2004


> The other possibility is that it is a dictionary-able email address.
> If you put numbers in the /middle/ of the email address (3d717ard5) it
> makes it harder to get simply by trying all combinations of aedwards
> to medwards.

Damn, I hadn't thought of that.  I'll just have to hope there aren't too 
many lucky guesses.


> Also I have found that several times spammers have gone to great
> lengths to find email addresses lately.  The only place my main email
> address is found on the web is in a pdf document that can be read in
> HTML.  I don't know if that is where the spammer found it, but no spam
> has come for months or years from the mailing lists I am on.  The
> other possibility that I thought of is that a recent virus was
> harvesting email addresses from the computers it infects, but nobody
> else thought that was likely.
> 
> Annoying, isn't it?
> 
> Miss Betsy
> 
> 

Yes, very. thanks for the suggestions.
> 
> 


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