[AT] FW: E-mail

[Dave Merchant]

Testing, not seeing my messages.

Dave Merchant


At 10:36 PM 3/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Farmer,
>Yes, I am getting hostile emails as well. Usually when I get a hostile
>email it is because I was "talking" when I should have been "listening".
>I would suspect that some spammer has found the "announce" email address
>in the archives and is using it to spoof spam emails. The way I understand
>it is that the spammers send out their spam using a return address that is
>not their own, in this case it is the "announce" address. when people
>receive this spam, it ticks them off and they fire back a hostile reply
>and since it is addressed to the "announce" address, everyone on the list
>or who has even been on the lists gets it.
>The problem is further compounded when one of us gets ticked and replies
>to the reply, because it once again goes to the "announce" address and
>everyone who is now on the lists or has ever been on the lists gets the
>email.
>That is my theory anyway. Maybe I am full of crap, it certainly wouldn't
>be the first time and unfortunately won't be the last!
>I haven't been by the puter too much, I have to write some replies to the
>folks who answered my questions and ask a few more, maybe in a day or two
>when the weather turns crappy again.
>Joe
>--- Robinson <robinson at svs.net> wrote:
> >     Anybody else getting hostile emails with ATIS-announce in the "to"
> > line?
> > This is about the third one I've gotten this evening.
> >
> >
> > "farmer"
>
>
>=====
>Joe Prindle
>Wisconsin Rapids, WI, USA
>Collector of Steam Engines
>& Mechanical Antiques
>www.tznet.com/jprindle
>
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