Re: [APML] OT: Spam prevention?

["Kevin Wigell" <kwemail@twcny.rr.com>]

Actually when you see an email address that you recognize sending out a 
spam, it is almost a guarantee that it did NOT come from that person. Most 
likely by far, it came from someone else whose computer is infected and 
(using your example) has Rob Gendler in his address book. The virus that 
sends these things out uses an email address from the infected computer's 
address book and then "spoofs" the "from" field to make it appear though it 
came from someone else. So if someone receives a spam from Alan Voetsch, 
more than likely it came from someone else who has YOU in his address book.

I have gotten angry emails from people who supposedly received spam from me, 
telling me to "clean up your system". In reality it came from someone else 
with me in their address book.

As far as congress shutting down spam, that's a laugh. Yes they passed the 
"can-spam" bill which has had absolutely no effect on spam, as far as I can 
tell. They might as well pass a law against tornados.

Kevin Wigell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Voetsch" <alanv12952@yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 13:36
Subject: Re: [APML] OT: Spam prevention?


>I had heard that congress was considering shutting this crap down. Did
> anything ever happen with that? Or, is it just plain impossible? Can we
> send these people a virus that will shut them down? That would be sweet
> revenge. Yeah, I like that thought.
>
> Alan
>
> --- Stuart Heggie <Stuart.J.Heggie@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> It is irrelevant whose name appears as the sender - the virus on the
>> affected computer is disguising itself by pretending to be a person
>> it finds
>> in the affected computer's address book. Very upsetting for folks
>> whose
>> names get used to be implicated. I am sure it is not Rob's computer
>> sending the messages.
>
>
>
> SCT Astrophotography: http://www.pbase.com/avoetsch/astrophotography
> FS-102 G-11/Gemini: http://www.pbase.com/avoetsch12952/tak_fs102
> & http://www.pbase.com/avoetsch12952/fs102
> & http://www.pbase.com/avoetsch12952/takpf
> 


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