File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1998/foucault.9807, message 35


From: "Sue Morris" <zantique-AT-ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: spam back!!
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:22:52 +1000


hey malgosia - thanks for the research and url info :)

cheers
sue
-----Original Message-----
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
To: foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
<foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: spam back!!


>A great majority of spam is sent from fake addresses, so returning it
usually
>has no effect other than getting back an "invalid address" error message.
>The non-Virginia headers for this particular spam were as follows:
>
>Received: from www.telecommex.com ([207.48.68.252]) by
lists.village.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA04857 for
<foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 23:36:52 -0400
>From: maurice-AT-netsrv.tobunken.go.jp
>Received: from tara by www.telecommex.com via SMTP
(951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/940406.SGI)
> id CAA03129; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 02:27:39 -0500
>Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 02:27:39 -0500
>Message-Id: <199807030727.CAA03129-AT-www.telecommex.com>
>To: gloria234-AT-aol.com
>Subject: Are you an Internet Marketer?
>
>I checked out userid "maurice" on "netsrv.tobunken.go.jp" and got the reply
>"user unknown", so I suspect that returning the spam is pointless.  The
>"www.telecommex.com" information may be relevant to tracing down where the
>spam really came from.
>
>There is a very comprehensive Web page dedicated to spam-fighting tools and
>techniques at:
>
>http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aiken/antispam.html
>
>
>-m
>


   

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