On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:54:56 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from martin contains these words:

I checked it on Sunday, there were of 50 bits of spam, to a name
never used.
It just shows how much is random generation on the "someone must have that
name" principle.

What did you call yourself?

We have 4 e-mail addresses based on our family christian names.
My daughter's christian name is not so common, her unused account was
overflowing with spam within a few weeks. My son has a very common
christian name and his mailbox created at the same time was still
empty a year after I created the account for him.

Luck of the draw. I'd guess that it randomly generates a numeric address
rather than guessing at usernames.

not in this case, it randomly guessed user names, it didn't even bcc,
I could see all the combinations of my christian name plus random
letters.
--
Martin