On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:37:31AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Often, it turns out that the complainant is fundamentally mistaken, and > the offending mail never went anywhere near your MTA. People frequently > file mistaken reports of this nature because they credulously believe > forged "From:" and similar headers, having themselves never learned > header analysis. Spammers and creators of malware software typically > cause headers to be forged in order to evade responsibility and shift > all blame onto others (such as your friend).
When I checked my email this morning, I was greeted with what must have been about 200 bounced messages. Spams which someone sent, and used one of my addresses as the "From:" line. So, when the spams hit tons of nonexistant or blocking addresses, _I_ ended up with them in my inbox. Thankfully, I check my email on my ISP, so I don't have to download all of that junk. Also, I use Mutt, so it was easy to hit [L]imit, type "failure", and then hold the [D]elete key down for a few seconds to wipe 'em out. Still pretty damned irritating. One day I might become one of those tech-geek-hermits who never use e-mail. (KIDDING) ;^) -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
