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Re: [OM] Common Personality

Subject: Re: [OM] Common Personality
From: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:58:58 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, mike blayney wrote:

> Apologies, yes silly of me. I use one hotmail address to receive the olympus 
> list and don't use it for anything else. This, of course, does not stop it 
> receiving spam (although as I don't use the address for anything else how 
> has it get onto anyone's mailing list - hm - interesting).
> 
> Mike.

A while back, I created a hotmail address, with a completely random and
highly unlikely to guess account name. I never used it, never announced
it. Yet after 1 week, it had 74 spams.

Personally, I think that someone has a hook on the inside of hotmail
(actually, on the inside of Microsoft) for harvesting addresses.
 
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  Thomas Heide Clausen
  Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
  M.Sc in Computer Engineering

  E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  WWW:    http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
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