[ale] curious spam

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Well then maybe since AT&T has taken over and revamped the site they 
must have improved their spam filtering. I just logged in to check and 
since I last cleared out the spam there was only one and it was a bounce 
message from someone using a metro.online.kz dynamic IP trying to send 
spam as me through an open mail relay in the Ukraine. The rest were just 
AT&T messages. That's a new change and I don't use this account for 
anything as I run my own mail server.

jtholmes wrote:
> 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.
>>>