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Dean Robb writes: > The misuse aspect has come about because spammers (primarily) have bots > that will harvest all the addresses in WhoIs and send them their drivel. Contact handles are predictable. All you need to do in a bot is try all the permutations of 2 or 3 letters, with or without -ORG at the end, and increment numbers until nothing is found. That will get you perhaps 99% of the handles. Handles should instead be generated in an unpredictable way, such as MD5. -- Phil Howard | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] phil | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] at | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] milepost | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] dot | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] com | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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