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Subject: Re: deferred / relocated / forwards
From: Lars Hecking (lheckingnmrc.ucc.ie)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 19:55:08 CST

Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes:
> Den 31-Jan-00 16:05:12 skrev Wietse Venema følgende om "Re: deferred / relocated / forwards":
>
> > Expect to see mail coming to the old address for at least a year,
> > if not more.
>
> Try five years or more. Spammers don't forget. My student mail account

<nodnod>

> hasn't been used for outgoing email since around February 1995 and yet it
> is still receiving spam, making it a quite good spam trap. Only during the
> last year of so has the flow decreased. Perhaps spammers don't make backups
> and are hit by the occasional hard disk failure too?
 
 I always thought they were using those "40 million email addresses!" CD-ROMS
 which used to be spamvertised a lot. Which probably means that some addresses
 will virtually never cease to receive spam. 

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