[vox-tech] Alarming spam

[Gandalf Parker]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Rod Roark wrote:

> On Saturday 14 April 2007 01:22, Richard Harke wrote:
> ...
>> I also don't know where they got the info as I never post such info
>> in public forums. I'm wondering if my ISP could have suffered a
>> breakin as that seems the most likely to tie together all the elements.
>
> Spammers work from lists, so an explanation such as this one seems
> likely.  It doesn't even require a break-in, just one employee
> deficient in scruples.

Even users can on some systems. Its not hard to build a list putting the 
@example.com in place if there is anywhere that the logins are listed. 
Such as "web pages of people on our system" or if they have a shell 
machine where users can get access.

Gandalf  Parker