spam volume depends on the first letter of name

[Martin Tomasek <tomasek () ufe cz>]

> 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.”

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=162585&f_src=darkreading_default

-- 
Martin Tomasek


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