Hi Dennis, The subject heading was: "[jug-discussion] RE: MedHelp 16974", and when I opened it I got an image with text and pictures of various products like Viagra taking one to a live web site, whose URL is http://www.birdpose.com?.? Below that is the text: "To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Obviously someone associated with the "birdpose" link is funding this sort of spam, and isn't that illegal, or is it possible to get the people hosting such web sites to close them done down? I have a Gmail account, and it is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I have no problem with spam on it, but I only got it earlier this year and a lot of my e-mails still come in on my AOL account.? Perhaps I should change this for JUG and other newsgroups I am on. Christopher -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Sosnoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:50 pm Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] Spam I didn't get it either, and I don't use Gmail or other filtering.? ? Christopher, spam email headers are *always* forged, because spamming is illegal in many areas. If you have a public email that's posted on the web, your email address is probably being used for spam. I know mine is - about every month or so I get a deluge of bounces from email servers all around the world with a variety of different spam emails being rejected and the rejection messages coming back to me. I've set up mail filters to eliminate most of them. So don't take the supposed "from" address on an email seriously.? ? ?- Dennis? ? Chad Woolley wrote:? >? > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Christopher Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:? >? > I opened what I thought was a message from this group, and found? > instead spam on Viagra and other similar products. It was in the? > form of an image.? >? >? > I didn't get it. Do you use Gmail? If not, consider it...? >? > >? ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------? To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
