MY DELAYED RESPONSE TO... 10/1/02 1:00 am chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] communicated:
>That ID is your mail server's unique SMTP record ID. It is assigned by >your mail server for EVERY email you get, and no two should ever have the >exact same ID number... ever. Well burst my bubble! After so much studying of tens of emails that was the only thing I could figure out to filter. I have never had more than 1 or 2 spam daily, and now suddenly its up to 20-30, and the pattern suggests that they are related. There is usually 1 sex related, 2 or 3 insurance and mortgage ones, a couple of "as seen on tv products" etc. There are usually 2 daily with a phony cc list to other user names with my isp, always 1 or 2 that show yahoo somewhere (where for a few days recently I had put my isp email as the return address -DUMB-) and sometimes one that identifies "efax" with whom I have had a free email fax account for 3 years with using that same isp email account that is getting spammed. I forwarded a bunch of those that showed yahoo somewhere in the header to yahoo's spam patrol squad, and a seeming form response said they lassooed the culprit. Efax told me that when I accepted my free account 3 years ago I agreed to share my email address with their spam friends, yet never had any spam for the first 2 years or so. Since I no longer give out this address to anything or anybody (its a free account that is primaryily for email lists such as this) except for my ERROR in puting it temporarily as a return address to my yahoo account, it would seem that yahoo is the generator of this. In the case of yahoo, I specifically opted out to any sharing of my address for publicity... or at least I thought I did. Can spammers get to their database? or is it more likely that yahoo cannot be trusted in such matters? Joined the ranks of the spammed... Gabriel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
