From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-24-221-98-238.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.98.238] helo=lnx1.holmesgrown.com ident=steve) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 168hF4-0004yc-00 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:21:39 -0500 Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by lnx1.holmesgrown.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA20621 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 05:21:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 05:21:40 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Holmes To: Subject: Re: spam question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: They might be using the Bcc: field or there may be a way to embed your address in the envelope area as is done by list software. I also wonder if Pine's + sign applies to Bcc as well as CC header fields. Another note about this spam stuff, It is worth a try to expand the headers with pine's h command and see where the mail originated from. Once this is found, then forward the mail with headers expanded to abuse@ where provider is the originating source. I've successfully stopped some spam this way. Unfortunately, some spam gets here without *ANYTHING* in the headers. God knows how that got here but I couldn't do anything with that one. Also, simply ignoring them eventually works too unless it got so out of hand that ignoring isn't bareable. On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Rodney Clowdus wrote: > Have any one else on this list gotten a spam e-mail from > "hopeyou@getrich.com" ? The from: and the to: all say > hopeyou@getrich.com. It's puzzling the fire out of me as to how it wound > up in my mailbox when it was mailed to hopeyou@getrich.com. I use pine as > my e-mail program and this spam does not indicate with the + sign that it > was an e-mail sent directly to my address as suppose to the list. I'm > assuming that it may be posted to this or another list. This is the first > time that I have had this happen to me. I've had spam before, but they > were either mailed to the list or to my personal e-mail address. I used > to never get spam, but over the last few months it's slowly creeping in to > the tune of one a week. > Maybe some of you folks on the list are smart enough to keep out > the spam. I hate to have to change my e-mail address if this spams grows > like a virus. I hope there's a way to stop this before it gets out of > control. Thanks in advance for any tips that can keep the e-mail traffic > clear. > Rodney > > The Weaving Beaver > rclowdus@kcnet.com > "Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice." > "Weave your own cloth and it will reward you twice." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >