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From: rik.bobbaers at cc.kuleuven.ac.be (Harry de Grote)
Subject: why o why did NASA do this.

Op Sunday 17 October 2004 16:17, Adam Jones sgreifde:
> The majority of the list had nothing more than
>
> alias $name $email
>
> Only small parts had any more specific contact information. The emails

and you based that on absolutely nothing at all?:
[harry@...wie nasanames]$ for i in *; do echo $i; cat $i |grep note|wc -l; cat 
$i |grep alias|wc -l;done
CODE-A.TXT
39
39
CODE-B.TXT
66
66
CODE-C.TXT
135
135
CODE-D.TXT
3
3
CODE-E.TXT
33
33
CODE-F.TXT
60
60
CODE-G.TXT
40
40
CODE-H.TXT
48
48
CODE-I.TXT
75
75
CODE-J.TXT
75
75
CODE-K.TXT
11
11
CODE-L.TXT
31
31
CODE-M.TXT
114
114
CODE-N.TXT
3
3
CODE-O.TXT
3
3
CODE-P.TXT
50
50
CODE-Q.TXT
48
48
CODE-R.TXT
88
88
CODE-S.TXT
119
119
CODE-T.TXT
3
3
CODE-U.TXT
73
73
CODE-V.TXT
3
3
CODE-W.TXT
189
189
CODE-X.TXT
9
9
CODE-Y.TXT
66
66
CODE-Z.TXT
20
20
NON-NASA.TXT
616
616


> provided seem to all have been @nasa.gov anyways. (did not actually
> search for exceptions on this other than eyeballing it) Most likely
> any mail sent to these addresses would be filtered, especially spam.
> It probably is not much of a security risk as calling them to say "I
> am Brantly Hanks, Deputy Chief Engineer" would get a response of "Ok,
> give me your employeeID number to verify you".

i have to admit... it's pretty old and useless, but i think this may be a nice 
place for spammers to try out some new adresses...

-- 
harry
aka Rik Bobbaers

K.U.Leuven - LUDIT             -=- Tel: +32 485 52 71 50
Rik.Bobbaers@...kuleuven.ac.be -=- http://harry.ulyssis.org

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