25-02-2008, 23:11
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Apprentice Geriatric
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Re: annoying email
Hands up all those who spotted my deliberate mistake in my post (#10).
I wrote:
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Sooner or later the spammers will work out a way to send a spam email to everyone regardless of their user name but in order to find your 10 random character username they would have to try 10 to the power of 36 combinations, that is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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It should have been 36^10 that is 365,615,844,000,000,000,000,000.
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