[ale] OT(ish) Sold or stolen?

[agcarver+ale at acarver.net (Alex Carver)]

On 2014-09-03 12:56, Horkan Smith wrote:
> At least in my case, it wasn't targeted random - I got *thousands* of machine-generated random usernames, probably tens of thousands in the logs.  One or two of 'em happened to match something I'd used, purely by chance.

Ah, I see.  I actually very rarely get those.  Most of the spam is aimed
at an actual username of some form (frequently not one that even exists
on my server, for example "accountant at ..." or "purchasing at ...").  I
almost never get one that targets some random junk.  But I got a run of
over 200 hits in three days to the exact address that I supplied to AT&T
even though none of the attempts resulted in a successful delivery (a
successful delivery would feed back that the address was valid, all the
attempts were rejected).