Dave's not here, man

[the_siobhan]

I get a lot of spam and phishing email. Like, a lot. I've had the same domain for over 10 years, I post to Usenet and LJ and blogs all over the internet, I've been on a ton of mailing lists over the years. I always find it fascinating when I start getting emails to user names that could only have been scooped from personal emails. Kind of makes you go hrmmm, you know?

A lot of them are also addressed to email addresses that I have never used. I imagine that throwing together a random combination of letters and numbers works often enough to make it worthwhile to just hit any email address possible at a given domain. Since it's my domain I get to see them all.

And the one that really makes me scratch my head? Are the emails addressed to brocolli-sacrifice. It is the most common spam email address I get, and I've been getting them for years.

No. Idea.

Comments

[nemesis-to-go.livejournal.com]

Bröcolli Säcrifice? Weren't they a death metal band?

Their seminal third album, 'Brassicas Of Satan' is still highly rated by fans of cabbage-deathcore, I'm told.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Have you considered following the sign from the $DEITY and, y'know... Sacrificing some brocolli?

(or redirecting everything not sent to an explicitly listed username at the domain to dev/null ?)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That would make a lot of sense, but I've been using this domain for so long my list of explicitly defined addresses probably numbers a few hundred by now. (I tend to do things like set up user accounts with $company@domain as my address.)

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Brocolli sacrifice??? Is that what vegetarian Satanists do????

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

if you start to become un-amused at it, you can change it so your email isn't a catch-all.

re: Dave's not here, man

[betonica.livejournal.com]

I get so much spam that I've started going into my spam folder once or twice a day and deleting it (skimming the sender and subject lines for the 2% that shouldn't have been dumped there). Otherwise my inbox overflows before my server deletes the spam by whatever criteria it uses.

My brain isn't working well this morning - where does "Dave's not here, man" come from? I know I know.... Firesign Theater, maybe?

Re: Dave's not here, man

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Cheech & Chong!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheech_&_Chong