On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:41, Malcolm McCallum wrote: > There is a small but interesting 'good' part of spam as it shows you > how the system works.
No, it shows how the system is broken. > However I cannot see how the following piece got > to me. I have removed the .exe part :-). From: net system > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You don't include anywhere enough information to answer your question, but given that you speak of a .exe extension and the onslaught of Microsoft virus rubbish doing the rounds, it is likely that your message came from a falsified message header that was generated by a virus and sent to everybody in the infected user's address book, thus infecting many other users. To top it off, many corporate email systems have virus checking software built in which in turn generate bounce messages to the falsified sender. So you get hit with a double whammy. Thus, I'm guessing that you're not talking about SPAM at all, but about virus email. Finally you can also visit spamcop and get an account to forward your SPAM to, this will then (with your interaction) send off automated messages to those networks that provide loopholes to SPAMmers. You should be aware that the costs associated with the receipt of an email becomes triple by using spamcop, once when you get it, once when you forward it to spamcop and once when you see it on their web-site to fill in the boxes and forward the report. Some users will not want to pay this extra penalty. I've added a fourth cost by actually paying for my spamcop use, but that is entirely up to you. I've changed my email address on my web-site to be ASCII-HTML encoded and used spamcop and my SPAM-load has reduced significantly. The Microsoft email virus onslaught is of course not SPAM and should not be reported to spamcop. Beware that this list is not really suited to talking about SPAM. Kind regards, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18" - E128:45'05" (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
