Re: [PLUG] OT: gmail invites available.

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Rebecca Ore wrote:

> 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).

Rebecca,

I have literally gotten 2 pieces of spam on this Verizon account since I 
opened it on June 18th.  On the other hand, my alexion.com account (10 
years old) gets spam as 80-90% of the daily intake.  Verizon is 
aggressive to the point of being annoying in terms of spam blocking as 
was discussed on this list.  Could it be that you are just used to an 
unusually low spam rate?

I was thinking of using my account for list mail -- stuff with low 
privacy concerns anyway -- maybe use it to search threads that didn't 
interest me when posted, but become relevant in the future.  That could 
be a problem, though, if I am archiving a lot of spam.

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