[Scspamcop] Re: cox now blocking reports to spamcop (labelling them as spam)

[Mike Easter]

dwayne wrote:
> "Mike Easter"
>> dwayne wrote:
>>
>>> I understand your point, but when one opens a *brand new* account
>>> with Cox and the day they assign an e-mail account to you there are
>>> over eighty (80) spam message in the account... then I see a
>>> problem.
>>
>> That is a sign that you picked a username which was already on a
>> spamlist.  Spammers like to take usernames they've harvested and
>> attach them to popular domainnames.  That's how new accounts get
>> instant spam.
>
>
> Possible... but not highly probable.  I basically took my full name,
> spelled backwards, and punctuated by some non-alphanumeric
> characters...

I have no way of knowing the likelihood of the resultant alphanumeric
sequence you've described being previously used by anyone on the planet
at any time in the past or not;  but I can conjecture a few things...

 -1- What you just described for creating a username is not at all the
same as a true random password/username generation method, so you
shouldn't pretend that it is - see #4

 -2- Your implied presumption is that either -a- your spam to your
brandnew account is 'magic' /or/ -b- your spam to your brandnew account
was facilitated by the account address being sold/given to the spammers
by cox or the cox db is cracked.  I severely doubt that the mechanism is
magic or the spammers having access to the cox db, ergo I conclude....

 -3- My expressed presumption, that the username was previously used is
better than your implied presumption that the mechanism for the spam is
magic or opened db

 -4- It is possible to create a username which is highly unlikely to
have ever been used by anyone at any time in the past, but it might not
be as simple as you think


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin