From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 3:59:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC3637B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 03:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F2A43E4A for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 03:59:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1892MX-000GPP-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:59:17 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id BB55DEA9B for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:59:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 04025D6EF for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:59:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 7E16522596; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:59:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:59:07 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD List Subject: Mysterious emails Message-ID: <20021105115907.GA1234@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I wonder if anyone can throw some light on this. I get a *lot* of emails addressed to non-existant users on my domain "raggedclown.net". They all follow a pattern A single alphabetic character followed by 3 numbers. e.g. a1025, b3471 Now why is is anyone doing this ? These are very unlikely names, and non of the normal aliases are tried. I don't think it is a DoS either, since although they come in bursts they are usually in groups of up to 7 or so...and not every day..which is not going to grind me to a halt. I am curious as to the motive. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message