On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:46:16 -0600 LuKreme <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > On 3-Jul-2009, at 20:35, Andrew Thompson wrote: > > what is the hate for backscatter founded in? > > > Wait until you get hundreds of thousands of backscatter where > someone has sent out spams with your user name as the From: address > and helpful mail systems bounce them 'back' to you since your address > is in the From: header. This is known as a 'joe-job' and it sucks. > > Besides that, a lot of spammers sent mail out with forged from > addresses so that if the spam isin't delivered to the To: i t might > be delivered by some retarded mailserver to the forged From.
http://www.backscatterer.org/?target=usage well worth looking at > -- John
