Re: backscatter

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:46:16 -0600
LuKreme <kremels <at> kreme.com> wrote:

> On 3-Jul-2009, at 20:35, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > what is the hate for backscatter founded in?
> 
> 
> Wait until you get hundreds of thousands of backscatter where
> someone has sent out spams with your user name as the From: address
> and helpful mail systems bounce them 'back' to you since your address
> is in the From: header. This is known as a 'joe-job' and it sucks.
> 
> Besides that, a lot of spammers sent mail out with forged from  
> addresses so that if the spam isin't delivered to the To: i t might
> be delivered by some retarded mailserver to the forged From.

http://www.backscatterer.org/?target=usage

well worth looking at
> 

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John