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On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Craig A. Huegen wrote: > The "IEMMC" crap that Sanford Wallace promoted was also an engine to > generate addresses for spam use. I know of a few people (including > myself) who tested this theory by using a very old account from which we That's not a valid test. Lists of addresses, many of them very old, get used for spam all the time. I used to get spam via a school mainframe account I'd not used for several years. That account had never done usenet and was on very few if any mailing lists. When IEMMC came out, I did a real test. I created a new account never used for anything. I jumped through their hoops Jun 18, 1997, and got confirmation I was on their remove list. That account still has not been spammed. It has gotten one message that could be interpreted as hate mail, but that's all: -- >From [email protected] Sat Aug 9 23:53:19 1997 Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from powerpromo.com (ren.southwindnet.com [207.7.22.2]) by irc.aohell.org with SMTP id XAA19588 for <#####@aohell.org>; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 23:53:10 -0400 From: [email protected] Message-Id: <[email protected]> Received: from [205.229.48.18] by powerpromo.com (SMTPD32-4.0) id AB9BDB40106; Sat, 09 Aug 1997 22:55:07 -0500 Subject: go away Date: Sat, 9 Aug 97 22:56:06 CST6CDT Status: O and die -- The username is obviously not #####...I just didn't want it to be known. Maybe I added the account to the remove list too early, maybe they had it going to /dev/null...who knows? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <[email protected]> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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