From: Corey Gilmore (cfgdln.uvm.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 06:08:16 CDT

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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Peter Parker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Good news for the spamers!!
>
> As most of us are aware that Google provides various options/operators
> for writing effective queries. One of the operator is the "site:"
> option, which restricts the search to the website specified with this
> tag. Just tried googling for some gmail accounts with
> site:gmail.google.com and the results were a list of urls with the title
> "Link Already Used". The area of concern is that all these pages are
> actually error pages with a valid gmail user accounts.... so with a
> small script its very easy for some one to glean a list of _valid_ gmail
> accounts.
>
> Do you have a gmail account? ....check if your name is already harvested
> ;-)
>

Before someone spends any time to start scouring gmail.google.com, all of
the ~273 gmail accounts found with that method were posted as links to
other web pages. Although, someone who uses a gmail invitation from a
website might be the type of person who will buy H'y_d_roc_0_d_0`n_e or
V~i_c_o`din.

Google for a-9a480b2d7a-3e4cd52df5 and you get two results, one being the
gmail "Link already used", the other being www.cocooland.com which has
a handful of gmail invitation links. I'm still not sure about the wisdom
of showing who used an invitation...

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