[CUBE] weirdo stuff in email replication going on/ help?

John Labovitz johnl at johnlabovitz.com
Wed Aug 20 15:01:17 PDT 2003


On 8/20/03 2:44 PM, "Meirion Roscoe" <roscoe at macunlimited.net> wrote:

> If you can get a copy of this month's Macuser (UK version) and read the
> article on the second to last page , you will see that the author of
> that article has exactly the same problem as yourself and that is
> because some bored-with-real-life losers in Florida got hold of his
> e-mail address and cloned it so they could send hundreds of " Wanna
> double the size of your wanger?" spam mails.

This has been happening to me for many months (my address being forged).
Unfortunately, due to the design of Internet mail protocols, it's an
incredibly easy technique to exploit -- probably the biggest barrier is the
moral one, and we know spammers don't have to jump very far over that.

I think it's a lost cause.  I can only hope that folks on the receiving end
just ignore it and don't remember my name... ;)

-- 
John Labovitz
johnl at johnlabovitz.com
www.johnlabovitz.com



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