At 09:03 PM 12/9/00 -0600, Andrew N. wrote: >I have a question about spam, you know how the spam comes from some email >adress right? for example <mailto:qxeye at jyrki.com>qxeye at jyrki.com but when >you try to send an email to that adress I get an undeliverable response. >My question is Is that a reall email adress that becomes active to send >the bulk email and then becomes innactive again. Or is that just a fake >made up address that they mannaged to forge the email headers with? Or do >they just take some poor shmucks adress and use it? Spammers forge headers, abuse open relays, obfuscate URLs, use redirect sites, use encrypted javascript, etc. But this isn't a spam mailing list, so I'm going to stop before I get started. (ok, ok, the "Live like the RICH spam should be reported to abuse at bellatlantic.net) Some resources, in no particular order: usenet: news.admin.net-abuse.email http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/nana/ http://www.cauce.org/ http://www.abuse.net/ http://www.samspade.org/d/ Finally, and most importantly, see this URL and follow the instructions for Outlook Express 5. Thanks. http://www.houghi.org/