[ale] curious spam

[jtholmes]

I also rarely look at my BS/ATT email account, usually
nothing but at&t admin messages.
Just checked while writing this msg and
had 14 messages, some from early 2007 (shows
the last time I checked it) and all were BS/ATT admin
and no spam, Interseting!!!!

Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>     I've been with Bellsouth/AT&T since July '06 and have never used my 
> provided email address either and all it ever gets is spam. I don't even 
> bother forwarding it anywhere because of that fact. I'll look every 
> couple of months to see if AT&T sent anything, or if more frequent if 
> I've got nothing better to do than weed through spam, otherwise I don't 
> bother with it.
>
> Geoffrey wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
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