Re: [ga] Domain names are highly irrelevant in the struggle against spam (Re: [ga] Vint why do none...)

[k@widgital.com (Kristy McKee)]

True,

I recently received spam where the spammer had (for my convenience & to 
avoid bouncing email since they obviously were not sending from a valid 
SMTP host) with my email address in both the from and to sections of the 
message.

~kristy


At 02:00 AM 9/18/2002 +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > At 07:23 AM 9/17/2002 -0700, todd glassey wrote:
>
> > >I get this SPAM this morning
> > >and after doing a header analysis, we find
> > >it comes from a domain
>
>The only thing certain about the origin of an email is the IP of the
>mailserver through which it was sent. In many/most spam messages the
>sender's email address in the header is fake, including the domain name(s)
>involved. Even the hostname of the mailserver is quite often fake. We can
>only rely on the IP.
>
> > >called 99talk.com, registered through the Boy Scouts
> > >of Australia, only the contact email addresses for the domain all 
> bounce...
>
>
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