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Re: [OM] Common Personality

Subject: Re: [OM] Common Personality
From: "John Cwiklinski" <plinkochips@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:22:36 -0700
T. Clausen wrote:


A while back, I created a hotmail address, with a completely random and
highly unlikely to guess account name. I never used it, never announced
it. Yet after 1 week, it had 74 spams.

Personally, I think that someone has a hook on the inside of hotmail
(actually, on the inside of Microsoft) for harvesting addresses.
<<

Unfortunately, it is much more simple than that. Your "Browser" has a cookie that is reporting back to the spammer, without your knowledge.

John Cwiklinski

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