[Tracker-discuss] [issue105] Dealing with spam

Martin v. Löwis metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za
Thu Sep 18 11:26:42 CEST 2008


Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Okay.  So probably I should have created a new one?

Yes, and please don't reply to this one anymore, since every message
will reopen it (when sent to metatracker)

> Hmmm...  I've they have registered like I did, they would have been
> able to fetch it.  Do you have any other idea, how this could have happened?

Sure. They have databases with from addresses, and databases with to
addresses, and they try all combinations.

> Do you believe it is random incidence they picked my account for some
> reason? 

Yes. You are now in the database, and, from time to time, they will try
this combination again.

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