Edel SM wrote:
The following mail item, which I allegedly sent (I did not)
bounced back to me from PLUG, because the mail item was
too big.  I never sent this mail to PLUG.  I believe that
some spam mailer program somewhere got hold of my email address
and used it to send this spam mail (possibly carrying a virus?)
to many different addresses.  How does a ligitimate email address
owner prevent his email address from being illegally used like
this?


email domain forgery? i think spf & ms caller-id can help you.
spf home @  http://spf.pobox.com/

in my network, i always block outbound access to port 25,
minimizing spams coming from inside (windows PCs).


If you have a website, try this:

http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/antispam.html

:)

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