I have a friend who works for att.worldnet; evidently this is a problem
of large proportions. Any shmoe can create an address
triumphs@autox.team.net <mailto:cmusson@att.worldnet.com> or some such
thing and send if from their own IP address; hiding the address from the
receiving end. When you receive the message you will think it came from
the list. There is a concentrated effort for providers to block any
sender's address that has the "@" as part of the name. But there are so
many out there that it may be impossible. Those listed below seem to
be the easiest to hack through. About the only thing we can do is hit
the delete key.
M2cw. Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: Chip Old [SMTP:fold@bcpl.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 1998 4:13 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re:blocked mail ISP problems
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 Cwn74@aol.com wrote:
> There has been an awful lot of smut spam comming from
earthlink acounts in
> recent months and in response many users have blocked mail
from there. I
> would have except my Sister has an earthlink account.
Complain to earthlink
> to clean up their act!
>
> earthlink isn't alone, at present I have some isp blocked
(worldcom or
> something) and had hotmail.com blocked a few months ago...
Very little spam actually originates from earthlink, worldcom,
hotmail,
erols, flashnet, and the other big providers. If you ignore the
address
on the "From:" line (which is almost always faked in spam) and
examine the
"Received" lines you can determine where it really came from.
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Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 NEMGTR #2271
Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO
fold@bcpl.net
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