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I recently realized that some websites which aggregate data on people (the same annoying ones that come up when you google your name) advertise the fact that th
by squidblimp 5y ago
I recently realized that some websites which aggregate data on people (the same annoying ones that come up when you google your name) advertise the fact that the email addresses have been "verified", including the fact that emails sent to the address don't bounce.
So that makes me wonder which percentage of spam emails are actually just checking that the email address is valid and active.
- z3t4 5y agoI used to run a "catch all" e-mail where everything sent to that domain went into my mailbox. I had to stop because I received something like 20 e-mails per second that had to be filtered. There are also a lot of honeypots e-mail addresses and any mail server sending mail there will be put on a spam-list.