Re: Strange SMTP Garbage Flood

[Johannes Verelst <johannes () verelst net>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Duncan Simpson wrote:
[snip]
> I have used this method more than once to find out if abuse@<domain> exists or
> not (and almost always throw in a known invalid name to see if the method
> works). The same method could be abused to probe for valid user names and that
> sort of thing.

For finding abuse addresses for a domain, I would recommend:

# whois -h whois.abuse.net spammerdomain.com

Johannes
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