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Re: Work From Home and Earn $$$$ - FREE Info!
- To: Bo Thorsen <bo at sonofthor dot dk>
- Subject: Re: Work From Home and Earn $$$$ - FREE Info!
- From: Michael Poole <poole at troilus dot org>
- Date: 02 Jul 2001 16:58:20 -0400
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010702063233.376E4353EA@idefix.sonofthor.dk><01070221400806.00806@idefix>
Bo Thorsen <bo@sonofthor.dk> writes:
> On Saturday 30 June 2001 17:26, Work@Home.sonofthor.dk wrote:
> > Work From Home - FREE Info!
>
> I just saw this mail from saturday. The moron has for some reason decided to
> use some of my domain name. I just wanted to clearly state that I didn't have
> anything to do with this. I'm sorry for the trouble, but there's not really
> anything I could have done about it.
The spammer did not decide to use your domain name -- I believe it was
sent with "Work@Home" as the source email address, and many mail
daemons (my own included) appended their own local domain name to the
end. So you saw it as Work@Home.sonofthor.dk; I saw it as
Work@Home.troilus.org. (A similar thing happens when spammers put a
single word as the source address -- for example, "From: Spam" would
be transformed by my MTA as "From: Spam@troilus.org".)
This sort of header corruption seems to be getting more common. More
conscientious net users often mistake what is happening, causing
themselves (or occasionally others) unnecessary concern.
-- Michael