my own website + W32/Sobig.f@MM virus = over 800 emails in 12 hours.

[Reprobate]

and each email has a 100K .pif attachment. so although i'm not stupid enough to double click on the attachment it still means i get a chock a block inbox every hour or so.

there's three blights on the internet: viruses (and those that make them), spam (and those that send them) and chain letters (and those that are stupid enough to believe that if they don't forward to 50 of their best friends and a 100 other people they don't really know then they'll have bad luck for the next 7 years).

[SamBo]

I'm so unpopular that i dont even get virus emails.
I hardly get any spam
and most people know that if they send me a chain letter I will hunt them down and stab them with a paddlepop stick until they die

[Lujan]

this is why if I use windows I never use an address book :)

I have a text file saved on my hdd,

name emailaddress
name2 emailaddress

etc

[Spingo]

Sounds like what I go through every time a spammer sends out hepas of mail with a @zgeek.com email address. For all of the messages that get sent out to invalid email addresses, I get the boucebacks.

My record was 1067 "Could not deliver your message" emails in a single 5 minute period.

I'm just relieved that my servers can handle that many email transactions :D

[seb]

just thinking... whats stopping someone writing a script to cycle through every alphanumeric combination of emails possible? and thus spamming everyone (evenutally)

this would be especialy easy for universities where most emails are student numbers...

z12345678@someuni.edu.au

???

seb