[PLUG] Plethora of bounced emails

Alice Corbin ali at axian.com
Sat Feb 7 09:57:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:09:55AM -0800, Steve Bonds wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Jon Jacob jon-at-manymoons.net |PDX Linux| wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if this is just me or what, but I have had a ton of bounced
> > emails returned to me although I did not send them.  I run a mail server
> > on my home network and my other user is getting them too.
> 
> It's not just you.  The latest thing for spammers and viruses seems to be
> to include From: addresses that appear either in the list of spam targets
> or in the case of viruses, the infected computer's address book.
> 
> I've been hit pretty hard too.  I had no idea I was on so many people's
> address lists!  ;-)
>
When this latest avalanche was first starting, I'd look at the To: field
and wonder "Now who do I know who knows this person?".  I'm thinking that
if someone figured out a way to track this virus, we could get a pretty 
good map of social connectivity.

Ali   




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