Hi Art, On Saturday, October 5, 2002, 10:06 AM, mentioned about "OT: Strange emails":
A> I'm seeing strange incoming email for about 3 weeks now, at the rate of A> one every 3 or 4 days; the [From] header usually includes 4 numbers + A> my user name, the return address includes my email address, the message A> is addressed to my email account, and the subject header includes what A> appears to be Japanese or Chinese characters and English text. The A> message also appears to have been sent from a hinet.net server. hinet.net is really hinet.net.tw which is from Taiwan. The 4 numbers, plus your return address, ... well, it is probably spam to begin with. A> The oddest part is that the email contains the text of a just received A> message... yet when you re-read it the text changes to the text of ANOTHER A> message in the same folder. It is probably from a spam program which is not RFC 2821(SMTP) or RFC 1652 (8-bit MIMEtransport) compliant, and your ISP's SMTP does not recognize it and mangles it during receipt, as they (ISP) may not have an 8-bit clean extended character MTA. It could also contain java script which is not a good thing.. Personally I would filter it to go to the bit bucket (trash), so you never see it, using something like reg ex on kludges using ^.*@hinet.net*, or something more exotic such as (^(To|Cc|From):.*@hinet.net*) I filter this junk from DNS and my MTA before it hits my box. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
