--- title: Blackholing My Email | daily.dev description: A personal story from 2002 about how having an email address embedded in Counter-Strike map credits (including de_dust and de_dust2) led to it being harvested... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/blackholing-my-email-jpxdqyi8p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Blackholing My Email | daily.dev og:description: A personal story from 2002 about how having an email address embedded in Counter-Strike map credits (including de_dust and de_dust2) led to it being harvested... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/blackholing-my-email-jpxdqyi8p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jPXDqYI8P.png og:image:alt: Blackholing My Email og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Blackholing My Email **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal story from 2002 about how having an email address embedded in Counter-Strike map credits (including de_dust and de_dust2) led to it being harvested by email worms like Klez. The address received thousands of infected emails daily, filling the 15MB mailbox and threatening the family's broadband account, ultimately forcing the author to ask BT to blackhole the address entirely. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Devil, Eight Million Emails, and a Whole Lot of Milk](https://daily.dev/posts/the-devil-eight-million-emails-and-a-whole-lot-of-milk-0xdny5qfw) · Huntress Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [My friend’s email startup finally got traction. 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