Date   : Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:28:56 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Spam Coming through mailing list

>Message-ID: <02BB1CF9A23842288DEFCD7662807C24.MAI@...>
 
"Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...> wrote:
> I haven't checked but from memory I think the sender's address is
> partially blanked out with dots on the archive listing, so it could be
> that some computer or other has picked up all the partial addresses
> from the archive and generated every combination of missing characters
> until eventually some "valid" e-mail addresses are produced which are
 
The archive removes the domain, so for example, my address appears
as jgh at ... It would take a lot of surplus computing power to bash
away generating every combination of /domain/ name to tag a user
name onto. The usual method is to discover a domain name, and then
bash away prefixing it with programatically generated user names,
eg:
   a@...  b@domain.name  c@domain.name  d@domain.name
   e@... ...etc... aa@domain.name ...etc...
 

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