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On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Simon Waters wrote:
The point is to harvest the addresses in the first place not especially to spam. Sure it makes sense to use a list of addresses if you have them, but someone has to build the list in the first place.
Of course. I guess I've talked myself into a corner by now. You're right, dictionary attacks do happen. They are rare though. And if an address has been leaked, in almost all cases one can assume that it wasn't a dictionary attack.
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