Steve,

I received your message sent directly to me, but not through the Arachne list.
I didn't receive anything through the Arachne list in close proximity to your
message, figure Arachne list must be or have been down.  So I send CC to you so
you get the message even if the Arachne list is still down.

It is especially annoying to receive the same spam multiple times or to receive
huge spams.  In the past few days I received a spam promoting that chain-letter
pyramid scheme from a domain ending in .cz, three times, 135 KB each time.  Bulk
of the message was a quoted-printable MS-Word .rtf attachment.  Even if I felt
taken in by the prospects of making big money, I might not have been able to
decode the snail-mail addresses to send money to.

If your message with its headers had been a spam, I wouldn't really know who
would be appropriate to complain to.

Crossing international borders makes tracking down and prosecuting spammers
very difficult, no doubt.  Authorities could set up a sting for some of the
worst ones, like the Nigeria scam.  In recent times I get a lot of spam from
Korea, as evidenced by the charset, "ks_c_1987-5601" or "euc-kr", much more than
I get from Taiwan, and I don't seem to get any spam from China, though I get
spam originating in other places and using open relays, some of which are in
China.

Do you use fetchmail, and if so, where do you have fetchmail direct mail to,
since I don't think you can set fetchmail to download directly to a file?

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