> From: MR MICHAEL.HENDERSON > I have recently started getting email from > "[email protected]" about the 'U2 Market > Place'. It also features "Return-Path: > [email protected]". Whilst it looks like > it might be kosher, I'm a little intrigued as to where > they got my email address from. The address they use > indicates it's not been harvested from an email I > sent, but that it may have been scraped from a > signature block.
I think this is a legitimate offering from a well-known colleague, just badly implemented e-mail processing. I hope folks here will heed the following when doing something similar. A Return-Path like that indicates that the email was generated using 'mail' or 'sendmail' (rather than sent by an individual), by a user logged in as 'u2adm', on a hosted provider serverphase.com. The subdomain is simply the server name in a farm at a shared host where you'll also find jupiter, saturn, etc. That part of it isn't helpful info since any legit company can get services from a host like that. The fact that the user is 'u2adm' helps to confirm that the intent was legit, compared to a user, for example, with a name like 'spammaster'. With the above info, if you actually care, you can sometimes use the Return-Path to contact a shared host to notify them that they have a spammer, and most reputable companies will shut them down quickly. The fact that they have a From/Reply-To of Postmaster@ is an unfortunate lack of marketing and/or technical skill. There should be a friendly address like Sales, to make us feel like return mail isn't getting trashed in a catch-all account. Finally, yes, the addresses were harvested from this forum. That's bad form, conforms to one of the definitions of SPAM/UCE, and for this reason I simply haven't clicked on anything related to this business yet. T _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
