[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: 'The hole through which
> spammers collect new addresses' is usually some technical employee (at
> the email system in question) has cut a deal with some spammer to
> provide them with new account names.
Doesn't it bother people that employees are leaking confidential information that results in inconvenience and higher cost to customers?
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Somehow I doubt that the miscreant employee tells his supervisor what he is doing in his spare time. Or hell, maybe it _is_ his supervisor who is doing it. And what do you mean about 'inconvenience and higher cost'? Any real man knows how to fix his computer to get rid of all that stuff and run faster than ever; either that or he just accepts his lot in life and calls it quits. After all, we cannot tell other sites how to do business. PAT]