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[Alexander Wilson <alex AT awstudios.net>]

On Mar 24, 2004, at 12:18 AM, Steven Champeon wrote:

> on Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:11:36PM -0500, Alexander Wilson wrote:
> > 2. Most spammed addresses come from harvested addresses and "best
> > guess" addresses. (If I own MYDOMAIN.COM, I'll get emails addressed to
> > WEBMASTER AT MYDOMAIN.COM as well as POSTMASTER AT MYDOMAIN.COM and a few
> > others even though though those email addresses don't technically
> > exist).
>
> postmaster@ should exist if you get mail at that domain, and it should
> be monitored, along with abuse@. It's an RFC compliance issue, and many
> folks refuse to accept mail from any server that doesn't support those
> addresses. So you may want to reconsider. (webmaster@ and the others, 
> eh,
> use your best judgement - but mail admins need a way to contact role
> accounts if only to report abuse.)

Huh. Did not know that. I had mine turned off for a few months because 
I was just getting two or three times the spam (everything doubled or 
tripled) and never anything legit.  Guess I'll have to reactivate them. 
Thanks for the info.

>  Whee. I'm amazed
> you don't get dozens of these a day - 'alex' is one of the localparts
> used by MyDoom. I'm just glad I didn't use 'steve' as my address; 
> that's
> another MyDoom localpart.

Don't be amazed. I certainly do get dozens of them a day.

Alex.

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