Pubsnet - Are they sp*mming?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Al Landis reports: <<What's the deal with Pubsnet? I have received  
about 50 spam e-mails from them today. They look random, like  
bouncebacks, resumes from people applying for jobs, and some are kind  
of sensitive as far as having personal information in them?>>

Don't ever assume that spam is actually coming from the address in  
the "From" line. Spammers routinely forge return addresses to make it  
a bit harder to track them down. I get a couple every day from PayPal  
and several local banks, for instance. And a while back, someone used  
my Web site as the ostensible domain name for a series of forged  
addresses. Took several days before they moved on to greener fields,  
and you can't imagine how many error messages I got until we fixed  
the problem (a misconfigured e-mail filter at my ISP).

Frustrating and annoying, but that's life in the naughty aughties.  
The problem will go away when the government gets serious about  
hunting these people down and putting them out of business.
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Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca

(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)

www.geoff-hart.com

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