Re: [PLUG] OT: gmail invites available.

[Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore@verizon.net>]

On Friday, August 27, 2004, at 04:06 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:01:26PM -0400, Rebecca Ore wrote:
> > The accounts accumulate spam at an absolutely amazing rate, so either
> > they're getting dictionary attacks or Google has a searchable database
> > of mailing addresses.
>
> Interesting.  I haven't gotten a single spam to my gmail account since
> I opened it on July 7.  My username is just 6 letters but isn't in the
> dictionary.  I haven't sent or received anything to it since I signed
> up.  Maybe that has something to do with it.

It's fundamentally the same address as this, and this doesn't get 
anything remotely like the spam the gmail account gives.  So spammers 
are using $name.$name dictionary attacks or some of the addresses have 
been leaked.

The spam filters catch most of it, but I'd think that Google should 
have some way to block directory attacks (I used to get them on my 
machine when I ran a server and would block IPs that tried them, and 
also had finger and vrfy disabled).

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