Re: spam volume depends on the first letter of name

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

On 29-Aug-08, at 3:08 AM, Martin Tomasek wrote:

> > Richard Clayton, a security researcher at the University of Cambridge
> > in the U.K., says he found evidence that the more common the first
> > letter in your email address is, the more spam you get: in other
> > words, alice () company com typically gets a higher volume of spam than
> > quincy () company com, or zach () company com. He says that’s simply
> > because there are more combinations of names that begin with “A” than
> > with “Q” or “Z.”

Musta been a slow news day at the register, because this research  
elicits the
biggest, "Well... DUH" Suppose its just concrete proof of the  
bleedingly obvious.

cheers,
--dr



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