Re: Mail setup broken (still/again?)

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Mail setup broken (still/again?)
Date: 2007-10-16 17:08:14
Message-ID: 8973E293B7A0AA4DC40D2766@ganymede.hub.org
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- --On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 19:01:26 +0200 Magnus Hagander
<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 18:46:28 +0200 Magnus Hagander
>> <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thanks for the quick fixes!
>>
>> Thanks for pointing them out, specially the 450 -> 550 change ... should
>> reduce some of the repeat hits:
>>
>> 4902 <BritneysBoudreaux(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 933 <CarrolljeffreyTyler(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 876 <EvanoctagonBall(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 863 <ErikasegregatePhipps(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 848 <JeremiahanthraciteCurry(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 845 <JenniehabitualMeade(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 805 <KipmoliereRocha(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 801 <GwendolynsolonWeston(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 793 <AngeliqueshipwreckZapata(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>> 788 <OlliedaggerJuarez(at)postgresql(dot)org>:
>>
>> And that was just today :)
>
> What? Several of those aliases *should* exist, no? ;-)
>
> 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 don't know, but the first one with 4902 attempts comes from mx3.cc.teu.ac.jp
... so its not even coming from random 'English' sites :)

We've had 48535 distinct names attempted 647009 times so far today ... and two
of them were for bill(at)postgresql(dot)org, and none for joe :)

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