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50pence
(experienced) Thu 17-May-07 19:05:17

Spam, mail format default blocking.

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Hi,

It seems that the spammers used username@username, as a mail format, perhaps the answer is to block username@username by default, shouldn't be a problem for most.

Regards.

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klint
(newbie) Thu 17-May-07 19:31:50

Re: Spam, mail format default blocking.

[re: 50pence] [link to this post]

I don't think they have. I certainly don't get spam sent to my main mailbox, [email protected], I only get it at the various other addresses used by the family, i.e. [email protected]. This is presumably because I've used such addresses with webmail in the past, but not the main mailbox address.

h0tblack
(fountain of knowledge) Thu 17-May-07 20:59:55

Re: Spam, mail format default blocking.

[re: klint] [link to this post]

Indeed, this is not about spammers 'guessing' email addresses as is often the case. Here they are using a list of known addresses.

50pence
(experienced) Thu 17-May-07 23:58:29

Re: Spam, mail format default blocking.

[re: h0tblack] [link to this post]

In my case and also my parents case the spam used username@username however in both cases we have never used that as an address format.

Hmmm, re my other post saying that i have never used webmail, I wonder if that is the format that addresses were stored on the webmail server.

Regards.

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