uucp@example.com

[Louis Zirkel]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> A lot of spam is sent to the domains that I administer to the user 
> "uucp". It comes in waves with the other usual suspects: postmaster, 
> webmaster, mailman, root, support, etc. I am not familiar with "uucp" 
> however. What is that traditionally used for? 

UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix Copy and it's a store and forward type of 
system that was used back before there was an always on type internet 
with tcp/ip.  There were routing tables, similar to with tcp/ip which 
would define how information could be routed through the network.  It 
was heavily used for email and usenet news, as well as file transfers.  
The spam vector your seeing is just a way to try and using any historic 
means necessary to gain traction with your box.