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by **Bonk** » Mon, 09 Apr 2001 15:36:35

Interesting talk & discussions on email & security issues > Hotmail
hijacked!

http://203.120.86.4/forum/Forum1/HTML/000441.html

by **Cameron L. Spitz** » Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:05:15

>Interesting talk & discussions on email & security issues > Hotmail
>hijacked!

>http://203.120.86.4/forum/Forum1/HTML/000441.html

No security issue there, the guy just got "Joed."
Some spammer put his hotmail address in the From line of
a spam. They do that because their lists are full of
bad addresses and they can't be bothered with the bounces.
They pick random addresses instead of known spam resisters
because random victims are less likely to retaliate.

I got Joed pretty bad last year. Usenet and email, and
it went on for six weeks. My accounts only survived because my
ISP knows me.

Cameron
--
"This is not a LART! You're being removed from the Internet
because you sent me junk email that cannot be considered spam
according to some bill that never got out of committee."

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Interesting talk & discussions on email & security issues > Hotmail hijacked!

Interesting talk & discussions on email & security issues > Hotmail hijacked!

Interesting talk & discussions on email & security issues > Hotmail hijacked!