Re: [exim] spam before list

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:45:35AM +0100, Dave Holland wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:17:55PM -0700, TBlittlefoot wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:31:42PM +0200, Leonardo Boselli
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Today at 1130 i activated (but did not advertised,neither
> > > added any user or sent any message) a list for local users.
> > > at 2330 arrived the first spam message .... :-(((((((((((((
> >
> > What!? How could that happen?
>
> Dictionary attack or random address generation.
>
> (or the spammers have become telepathic :-))

:-)

>
>


Okay. That makes sense. But I have mailboxes here on Earthlink
that I have been using for years that get no spam at all.

I guess that could be due to Earthlink's spam filters, which *are*
pretty good.

They do run Exim :-)

Tom