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- HigherLogic, on 08/27/2008, -0/+175I must be high or something...but, how can an email address that STARTS with letters towards the END of the alphabet receive LESS spam than an email address that BEGINS with letters towards the END of the alphabet?
- Braingoo, on 08/28/2008, -0/+82that sentence makes my head hurt.
- murk, on 08/28/2008, -1/+67Why Adam gets more spam than Eve?
my guess was because Eve doesn't need viagra or male enhancement pills - threedaysatsea, on 08/28/2008, -0/+37To: Adam@genesis.iq
From: snake@tree.eden
Subject: R1B5 4 CH34P!!!11 - takamichinaku, on 08/28/2008, -3/+30In simple words "They spam with a list arranged in alphabetical order"
- Crath, on 08/28/2008, -2/+17people still get spam?
thanks gmail team! - KungFuJ35u5, on 08/28/2008, -0/+15Adam obviously looks at more pr0n than Eve. Am I the only one who thought that was obvious?
- ran24, on 08/28/2008, -1/+16*Head ASPLODE*
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+15What makes it doubly sad is that neither the article writer nor the Digger realized the lede made absolutely no sense as written. Buried for "duh"-ness on both parts.
- JetKrosswind, on 08/28/2008, -0/+10I saw that too, lol.
- zcreem, on 08/28/2008, -0/+9Well if it's aaron@gmail.com you will now.
- kitkatsavvy, on 08/28/2008, -2/+9waaaa! he just compared apples to apples lol
gawsh - HouseofEl, on 08/28/2008, -0/+7I honestly had to read it like 5 times because I thought I was missing something.
- GoatMonkey2112, on 08/28/2008, -1/+7Cambridge can be crossed off the list now.
- Nouman6, on 08/28/2008, -1/+7z@gmail.com
man that dude's lucky. A Z and Gmail pssshhh - DaveVII, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5what worries me most about this is that an ISP handed out half a billion (presumably private) emails to a stranger...
- LeeTXJD, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5How does a story with an illogical description end-up on the front of the Technology section of Digg?
- remotehuman, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5mmm spam.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4why does r,p,s,m get more than a which gets more than z? I think the guy that did the study was right and ultimately its down to guessing the names. An alpha sort alone would not yield those results.
- RealmDown, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5and in that garden there were two leaves,
one covered Adam's and one covered Eve's.
before enhancement spam the leaf was a fig
now he needs a banana leaf to cover that twig - Owwmykneecap, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Four letter minimum
- timster, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4z_plus_three_more_zs@gmail.com
- dedknedy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Simple: Because STARTS with, and BEGINS with are two different things. uh... wait, nevermind.
- CYR1X, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Not in the beta!
- wrestlingnrj, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Eve doesn't need penis enlargement or ED pills.
- wyrdness, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3I think that ISPs should block outgoing email from their customers PC's, except if the customer explicitly requests it. The average residential user isn't going to be running their own mailserver, they'll be using webmail, so will have absolutely no reason to be sending out SMTP mail. The few (like me) who do have mailservers at home should, of course, be able to request access, as they're the ones who are less likely to get infected by spambots.
ISPs should also inform customers whose PC's have been compromised. I'm sure that the average home user wouldn't have a clue about whether their PC has been 0wned and will happily be shopping and banking online. - tmaromine, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Adam & Eve?
Why not use Alpha and Omega as an example?
Now, o' course that's the same person, but so are Jesus God and Holy Spirit, so it all fits into the model. - jull1234, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Eve's always hackin'.
- rationalist, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Why do articles beginning with nonsensical paragraphs get more diggs than articles starting with nonsensical paragraphs?
- swiftsam, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2the guy had the computing power to run through a half billion e-mails, and yet he couldn't be bothered to "perform statistical tests on the significance of his results"
- elliott9, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2As an employee of an ISP I think I can shed some light on this. We have multiple outgoing mail servers that our customers use. It is very common for normal residential customers to get infected with a virus that will start an email bomb.
This email bomb (or whatever you want to call it) will start sending out thousands of emails a minute as fast as it can usually picking the recipients in alphabetical order. If the spammer was crafty enough they will have gotten around our automated spam filters and these messages are being sent and delivered successfully.
We have monitoring systems that will alarm if hundreds of thousand emails are being sent per min from a location that normally sends only a few an hour. We then manually investigate to see if the message is spam (90% of the time they are Viagra ads). If it is then we take action to stop it.
By that time the email bomb has successfully sent to its list of recipients well into the C's or so and unfortunately a few thousand spam emails have already trickled through.
Just at our small ISP this happens 2-3 times a day. Sorry guys who's name starts at the beginning of the alphabet, we try but the spammers are very crafty. - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2perhaps, I didnt see that as a clear indicator. They could have just handed out the results of the ISP run spam filter which could be looked at for this purpose (actually the ISP could have ran the report generator and just given the guy the results). They would have had to give out the email addresses though.
But nothing in that article, nor the results of the study require the content of the emails to be seen by anything other than a spam filter, which most likely is in place anyway. - dedknedy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2While Aaron@sonofJochebed.com gets more spam than Adam@thegardenofeden.com, while zzzzzsleepytime@yourmomshouse.com doesn't even need a spam filter.
- onionoino, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1mmm precious adam
- diggpandit, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1maybe because some popular email crawling software shorts email from z to a. and sending email starts from z and software gets messed up by errors or something like that till it finishes sending all spams.
- AaronD12, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1That's just ***** great. No wonder I get so much spam... aarond12@asdfasdf.com
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1the same way an illogical story became the mainstream belief system
- ParanoydAndroid, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1I would bet money that the real statistically significant correlations lie in the proportion of names in a population that begin with a certain letter compared to the percentage of Spam sent to those letters,
- SRSco, on 08/28/2008, -3/+4OH ***** MY NAME IS AARON.
(Edit: I switched from Yahoo to Gmail when Gmail was first offered and I haven't received one bit of spam email since, despite having an email address starting in "AA." I've been extra careful with my email address since then, but maybe something can be said about Gmail's spam blocking abilities as well. My Yahoo account (which I had since highschool) was flooded with spam. I finally threw my hands up and decided to delete it. - majordanger, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1The occurrence of letters in a name or word is not evenly distributed across the alphabet.
Anyone who watches the TV game show "Wheel of Fortune" knows that.
For the record there are....
575 names that begin with A
168 names that begin with E
according to baby-names.adoption.com - jjhuddle, on 08/28/2008, -0/+11)Spam Lists are in alphabetical order...
2)Spam lists gets caught quite often before the spamming ends. - paulsabo, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Failure...
- Fleagleman, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Good. I'm not the only one that had a brain hemorrhage from reading that description.
- Blandyman, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Did you tighten up the graphics on level 3 though?
- elliott9, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1While the implementation would be a huge hassle that would actually work out really well in the long run. I think I will bring that point up in the next development meeting.
Thanks to you I get to look smart to my boss, thanks. :) - CMuffa, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Richard Clayton is a dolt...unless it's the person who posted this article.
- Knowltey, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1I understand why S would get the most, spam, but those other letters I'm unsure. In the English language more words start with the letter S than any other letter
- philipz78, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Adam gets more than Eve, but what about Steve?
- CMuffa, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1I hear you can buy Vowels in Mawali now for only $250. Wait, what?
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