"Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote in message news:a4359dff0708141021u5bce897eta7dc09c478ff023@mail.gmail.com...
It's very unlikely that two people with the exact same username will pick the exact same lame password.
If they do, then they could have logged into each others' accounts anyway -- so it's high time for them to figure it out. ;)
[SNIP] I doubt there are many people with accounts with the same password but different email address, so the gain is minimal. [SNIP]
There are a lot of people, like myself, who have started using different e-mails for every site they sign up to. For example, wikipedia_aug07@example.com would be the e-mail address I would use if I joined WP today. This allows easy inbox filtering, and is an good way to see which sites are disreputable/insecure when the spam starts coming in. When you own your own domain name (rather than using gmail or whatever) this requires no extra work (you can just make up the bit before the @ sign however you like), so a lot of people use this or a similar method to avoid being spammed to death.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)