[Coco] Smart subscription bots

J.P. Samson coco+list at jeanpaulsamson.com
Sun Jun 21 16:48:45 EDT 2009


On Jun 21, 2009, at 7:03 AM, James Hrubik wrote:
> Wow.  I wonder if this is related to the "canned meat email" I've  
> been seeing, where the sender's address is my own?  Fortunately,  
> Earthlink puts any mail from me that is to me in the Junk folder, or  
> I would be getting numerous messages every day from myself --  
> messages that I in no way sent.

There's an even nastier one.  I've had spammers who get a hold of my e- 
mail address/domain name (not too difficult to do) and start using it  
as the "sender" in their bulk e-mails.  Then you start getting tons of  
rejected mail back that you never sent.  Eventually, I had to cancel  
my address/domain because it became such a big problem.

-- JP




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