Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:35:45 EDT, Dean Anderson <dean(_at_)av8(_dot_)com>  said:

> There has been no evidence that Verisign has collected any sender
> addresses, nor would there be any reason for them to want to.
*plonk* Sorry Dean, you've finally managed to push over the edge from "possibly
just dense" into "obviously being intentionally dense".

"nor would there be any reason"?  Take the number of mis-addressed pieces of
mail per day (which was sufficient to even DDoS their Snubby server, which was
hopefully not a very heavy-weight MTA), and multiply by the going rate for
pre-washed e-mail addresses.

Or phrased differently - given that it's all about the benjamins, is there any
reason to expect them to *NOT* use the data they're being given to compile
lists for spammers?

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