[ale] curious spam

[Geoffrey]

So, I'm quite curious.  I changed my dsl to bellsouth and in doing so, 
you must create an email address of the form user at bellsouth.net, which I 
did.

Beyond that effort, I do not use this email address, but I've set it up 
to forward to one I do use as Bellsouth/AT&T says they will send 
administrative emails to that address.

It's not been a month and already I'm receiving spam to that email 
address.  How is this even possible?  Is AT&T/Bellsouth publishing these 
addresses in some way?

The email address is not 'intuitively obvious to the casual observer,' 
thus I don't think it's an automated email generator that's sending me 
the spam.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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