OT: wise username@domain.com

[Doc Schneider]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 25/01/07, BB <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Most mail servers I have setup in the past have very English looking 
>> email
>> address -
>>
>> joe at domain.com
>> jill at domain.com
>>
>>  The large place I'm doing contract work at now use a coreID (employee
>> number) as the username.  The real English name is still displayed in the
>> mail client setup.
>>
>> Seems to eliminate spam.  Certainly stops dictionary attacks.
>>
>> Anybody else using this kind of setup ?
>>
> Have doen in the past... Used cryptic combinations of letters and numbers.
> But that really doesn't "defeat" dictionary attacs/harvesting ... It
> might "delay" things a tad, but you will be seeing spam, trust me:-).
> 
> If the scheme is relatively new, that might explain low volumes -> no
> spam... Or if they have very strict email address use policies, that
> might keep things down for a while too.
> 
> Cheers

I've been seeing dictionary style attacks using numbers only for a 
couple months. They are usually 7 digits example 6052211 at domain.ext of 
course they don't work since I have no one using that scheme. 8*)

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