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J. Rodney Grisham wrote:
>I have a better story. I have a hotmail account with an eight
>character name (not a word). I only use it when traveling
>internationally. Only my best friends know that email address.
If any of your friends inadvertantly install spyware on their computer
while browsing, that address has the potential to be broadcast to a
spammer who wrote the spyware, or to the world.
>> What do
>> you suppose they are sending in those blank emails?????????
>
>It has an absolutely blank body. It is clearly a massive
>spam campaign to collect a list of email addresses which
>do not bounce messages.
The evidence doesn't support that conclusion. You see, I haven't
received a single one of those blank emails in my mailbox. They are
all caught and bounced by my server-side spam filter. And bouncing
the mail back with an "unknown user" mailserver error has absolutely
no effect. It keeps coming. And this isn't a case where I set up
my spam filter to bounce specifically that, so there's no way the
message got delivered even once. My filter bounced it all on its
own, based on the rules already there.
>The better question is, what's next after the blank messages?
Blacklisting in multiple DNSBLs. I've seen it happen before, as a
result of a server in Japan sending out hundreds of test messages
over a period of weeks.
-Alex
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