I got soem too and a LOT at work each day. It seems very hard to prevent with all the recent viruses capturing email addresses and on and on it goes.... Paul Gettings <gettings@mines.utah.edu> wrote:On 06-Apr-04 11:10, Joe Bauman wrote:
I'm afraid it's impossible to prevent. Jerks somehow can hijack email addresses and make it appear as if you sent out email. I get numerous When talking to an email server, a spammer can claim any return email address it wants. They used to use non-existant domains and names, until the mail servers started checking before accepting mail. Now, the spammers scavenge email addresses off the web (and anywhere else), and use those to bypass the mail server checks.
This is no different from sending postal mail with an incorrect return address on the envelope. It is just cheaper for the sender. -- The goal of a scientist is to find an interesting problem, and live off it for a while. The goal of an engineer is to evade interesting problems. --Vadim Antonov _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com