Re: [cobalt-users] More Spam To List Subscribers?

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Dan wrote:
> 
> The difference was, this is the only list I subscribe to with this address
> that has anything to do with web site hosting and that's who that email was
> targeted to. 

That's a bit strange.  But not incredible: I'll ilustrate with two examples.

We had for a while address at domain-name.demon.co.uk, demon being a 
responsible ISP (or they used to be at any rate).  Then we started to 
use domain-name.co.uk.  Then we got a second dial-up account at 
domainname.demon.co.uk, for use by roving staff.  Somehow, spam 
turned up at domainname.co.uk for valid user names in domain-name.co.uk.

And domainname.demon.co.uk was *never* used for anything but a bit 
of web browsing.

Secondly, here at san.com I get an incredible amount of bounced 
mail for unknown users.  If I alias those names to myself I find
a lot of spam arriving, as well as mailing lists for websites that
don't check the validity of an address.

There's a lot of people that think they have san.com addresses,
for some reason.

Unfortunately, getting sent somebody's complete credit card details
has only happened once so far....