question about spam mails

@060157 (1059)
Pakistan
September 17, 2007 2:37pm CST
i was just wondering if someone could tell how come spam mails finds the way to your inbox? one way could be when user gives out his/her mail address on various sites... recently, our university has given us new email ids using the gmail service (but address ends with "@nu.edu.pk"), and just after like five or six days i started to receive lots and lots of spam mails daily (atleast 50 of them) but thank God they go to the spam inbox and don't mix up with the other mails. and now all the new mail ids get the same spam mails all the time. so i was thinking, how come spam mail found its way to all these new ids?
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raredog
@raredog (743)
• Philippines
25 Sep 07
Because of all the spam I have encounter on the net. I've decide to blog about it. You can check it at http://delispam.blogspot.com
CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
18 Sep 07
Nowadays, they often just enter random addresses and can afford to send emails to billions of nonexistent addresses for the sake of obtaining just a few thousand real addresses. * Here is an example of random addresses generated by computer program into affinity. If one of these is real there could be money in it for the spammer. If they know the name of an IP, it makes it that much easier, say Tabu.com. * aPan@Tabu.com bPan@Tabu.com cPan@Tabu.com dPan@Tabu.com ePan@Tabu.com fPan@Tabu.com gPan@Tabu.com hPan@Tabu.com iPan@Tabu.com jPan@Tabu.com * This works for telemarketers too unfortunately. They often conscript unwilling helpers via billions of infected zombie computers to this monumental task. Not all spammers are legit business folk.