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

[Miss Betsy]

"N. Miller" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
news:57jro9f000j2.dlg at news.spamcop.net...
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>> The only way that accounts that are long and contain alphnumeric symbols
>> could have been created before is by spammers with random generators, 
>> IMHO.
>
> OTOH, any user name that was ever used with any of the more popular 
> service
> domains is probably going to be tried against any of the others.

So, using a long alphanumeric name that has been used before and been 
spammed is likely to be spammed again.  But, even if it is not truly random, 
unless you used it before, it is unlikely that someone else has used it 
before.  Though I suppose there are certain combinations that might be more 
likely than others - a name spelled backwards, for instance.

The fact that viruses harvest email addresses also increases the probability 
that an email address has been picked up by the spammer.  That's how my last 
email address started getting spam.  And all those random addresses from 
sneakemail that have started to get spam would add to the probability too.

Oh, well.  As I said before, IMHO, the only thing to do is to block those IP 
addresses from where the spam comes.  Because there is only one thing to do 
in that case, the sender has to find another way to email or complain to his 
ISP.  Nothing gets lost; the receiver doesn't have to sort through umpteen 
emails and possibly miss one or whitelist every correspondent.  And end 
users will learn pretty quickly what to do - or, at least, their ISPs will.

Miss Betsy