[This afternoon I received a spam with an odd address in the To: field. It had the same prefix (lvcm) as my ISP but had the .net suffix (instead of .com) I decided on a little experiment, sending a test message and received the following results. Does this look at all odd? steve]
>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) >From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Returned mail: Too many hops 26 (25 max): from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >via 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net, to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) > >The original message was received at Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) >from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent delivery errors ----- ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reporting-MTA: dns; mt1.lvcm.net >Received-From-MTA: DNS; 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >Arrival-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) > >Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Action: failed >Status: 5.4.6 >Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) >Return-Path: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT41223; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT35403; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:20:22 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT40924; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:20:20 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT34912; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:16:40 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT39692; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:16:38 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT34407; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:12:53 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT38471; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:12:49 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT33318; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:04:27 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT35863; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:04:16 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT33242; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:04:07 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT35764; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:04:02 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT33216; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:03:56 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT35731; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:03:55 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT31707; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:51:11 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT31709; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:51:09 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT29929; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:34:03 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT27287; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:34:02 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT29510; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:29:35 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT26160; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:29:29 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT27619; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:11:36 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT20725; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:11:33 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT26438; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:58:00 -0800 (PST) >Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net >[24.234.0.80]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT16715; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:57:57 -0800 (PST) >Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) > by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id AQT25337; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:50:55 -0800 (PST) >Received: from femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com >[24.254.60.16]) > by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) > with ESMTP id APT14228; > Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:50:52 -0800 (PST) >Received: from solo.lvcm.com ([24.254.81.38]) > by femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com > (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP > id > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:50:50 -0800 >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 >Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:53:23 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: test >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed