Re: [Asrg] request for review for a non FUSSP proposal

[Alessandro Vesely <[e-mail]>]

Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:37:16PM -0700, Steve Atkins wrote:
>> Also any actual usage of an email address leads to it being in a mailbox
>> on a Windows machine. That, in turn, leads to it being sprayed all over
>> the internet by viruses, and hence harvested by spammers.
>>
>> I have lots of uniquely created addresses that were provably not guessed
>> that get a lot of spam via that route.
> 
> Precisely correct, and worth emphasizing.  I've gone so far as to
> deliberately embed non-guessable addresses in the headers of single
> messages sent to single recipients -- and have subsequently received spam
> at some of them.  And of course addresses used repeatedly with multiple
> recipients tend to attract spam much quicker, since such usage increases
> the probability that the addresses will show up on a compromised system.

And are you sure their machines were actually infected? I 
experienced spam after sending to organizations that should be 
secured, e.g. nic.es. As I wrote a few minutes ago, I recognized the 
connection by timely receiving spam in the relevant foreign 
language. My guess is that spammers have also other means to sniff 
mail traffic.