I collect these into a database I run locally out of a bad habit I had as a teenager. Back in the AOL days you could ‘Email-bomb’ someone, and rightfully it sounds exactly like it is – you’d just send them tons and tons and tons of email.
Well, turns out - that’s pretty easy to detect and block. So I came up with a better way, a more permanent way; and probably the reason so many people see their email address as a private/privacy thing now – You simply submit their email address to every known spam address in existence.
Now, you’ve got an infinite amount of spam being thrown their way, 24/7, at super high volumes, for essentially - what is the entire lifetime of that account. I haven’t done it in the past 20 years or so, and I don’t have any of my old ‘progz’ for it, but I figure one day when I need it again, it will be invaluable.
There used to be an online competition years ago, I think it was called “TheMostSpam.com” or something like that, where you would get a temporary email address and it would track a leaderboard of whose address received the most messages in 24h, a month, and lifetime. Modern email tech rendered it pointless, but back in the days of the simpler internet, it was a fun concept.
I collect these into a database I run locally out of a bad habit I had as a teenager. Back in the AOL days you could ‘Email-bomb’ someone, and rightfully it sounds exactly like it is – you’d just send them tons and tons and tons of email.
Well, turns out - that’s pretty easy to detect and block. So I came up with a better way, a more permanent way; and probably the reason so many people see their email address as a private/privacy thing now – You simply submit their email address to every known spam address in existence.
Now, you’ve got an infinite amount of spam being thrown their way, 24/7, at super high volumes, for essentially - what is the entire lifetime of that account. I haven’t done it in the past 20 years or so, and I don’t have any of my old ‘progz’ for it, but I figure one day when I need it again, it will be invaluable.
There used to be an online competition years ago, I think it was called “TheMostSpam.com” or something like that, where you would get a temporary email address and it would track a leaderboard of whose address received the most messages in 24h, a month, and lifetime. Modern email tech rendered it pointless, but back in the days of the simpler internet, it was a fun concept.
Oh man, that would have been fun to compete in.
Listen to me…I have an idea…
What is it?
This reminds me of the wood chips delivery in the driveway bit…
https://getchipdrop.com/
Nice. I do collect virii of all kind. U never know 😁