[clue-tech] Question for sendmail folks regarding bitbucketing email to certain accounts

[Jeff Cann]

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On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:46 am, Chris Schock wrote:
> > I simply don't use the HTML Mailto: function any more in the pages i
> > manage.  That cuts out a lot of spam, since the bots that spammers use
> > to pick up email addresses over the Web don't usually pick up plain text
> > addresses.
> >
> > Not a very elegant solution, but it helps.
>
> That's the funny thing - I've never had that address published anywhere.
> Heck, it's never existed and there's never been an account/alias for it.
> It has to be a default account added in to spammer's lists. info at xxx.xxx,
> webmaster at xxx.xxx, etc.

Robots use common usernames and append them to common hostnames to 'guess' 
your email address.  This is one way email addresses get hijacked.

Jeff
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