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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mail setup broken (still/again?)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:19:35 -0400
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> --On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 18:46:28 +0200 Magnus Hagander
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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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