Re: Mail setup broken (still/again?) - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Mail setup broken (still/again?)
Date
Msg-id 20542.1192555175@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Mail setup broken (still/again?)  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-www
> --On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 18:46:28 +0200 Magnus Hagander
> <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>> 4902 <BritneysBoudreaux@postgresql.org>:
>>> 933 <CarrolljeffreyTyler@postgresql.org>:
>>> 876 <EvanoctagonBall@postgresql.org>:
>>> 863 <ErikasegregatePhipps@postgresql.org>:
>>> 848 <JeremiahanthraciteCurry@postgresql.org>:
>>> 845 <JenniehabitualMeade@postgresql.org>:
>>> 805 <KipmoliereRocha@postgresql.org>:
>>> 801 <GwendolynsolonWeston@postgresql.org>:
>>> 793 <AngeliqueshipwreckZapata@postgresql.org>:
>>> 788 <OlliedaggerJuarez@postgresql.org>:

>> I wonder how the hell they come up with those... I mean, what's the
>> percentage that they exist at all. I can understand those that fake
>> bill@ and joe@ and such addresses, but this...

I've seen a fair amount of spam that has forged return addresses that
look like those.  I'm thinking that spammer A's name-generator has
fooled spammer B's address-harvester ...
        regards, tom lane


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