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Re: Most used email address on Usenet?

  • Subject: Re: Most used email address on Usenet?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:46:40 +0000
  • Newsgroups: alt.2600
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
  • References: <11mv1p5php31743@news.supernews.com>
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__/ [me@xxxxxxxxxxx] on Monday 07 November 2005 16:56 \__

> 
> 
> I am trying to figure out what the most used email address
> on Usenet is as defined by doing the following search:
> <http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Of all the email addresses I checked, me@xxxxxxxxxxx is the
> most used.  Can anyone here find one that is more common?
> 
> EMAIL ADDRESS                     HITS
> me@xxxxxxxxxxx .................. 1,150,000
> nospam@xxxxxxxxxx ............... 786,000
> a@xxx ........................... 209,000
> @. .............................. 187,000
> x@xxx ........................... 110,000
> nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ............ 107,000
> a@xxx ........................... 83,400
> invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ......... 64,700
> anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ... 48,900
> fake@xxxxxxxx ................... 43,500
> uce@xxxxxxx ..................... 32,000
> anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ......... 22,300
> 1@xxx ........................... 19,600
> nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx .............. 15,800
> *@*.* ........................... 15,600
> nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx .............. 13,100
> _@xxx ........................... 11,800
> no.spam@xxxxxxx ................. 10,200
> nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx .............. 7,070
> dev@xxxxxxxx .................... 6,700
> ?@?.? ........................... 6,580
> billg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ............. 6,440
> none@xxxxxxxxxxx ................ 4,200
> invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx ............. 3,840
> 0@@0.0 .......................... 3,530
> nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx .............. 2,110
> someone@xxxxxxxxxxx ............. 1,400
> devnull@xxxxxxxxxxx ............. 1,370

Why do you multipost?

That aside, has anyone realised that by using some of these obscure domain
names,  genuine  sites and mail servers can be hit? If the domain name  is
real,  that can become quite deadly over time unless certain ports get ig-
nored.  An E-mail address whose domain is some company one hates I suppose
that can do much harm when harvested, as well as promoting and proliferat-
ing  a  brand name. billg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx is one such example. Later on  Mi-
crosoft brag about the amount of spam their managers get.

Roy

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