someone has put one of my addresses in the “from” of a spam. The first I knew about it ws this morning, when there were ten bounce messages in my own incoming spam folder; apparently I have been selling life insurance all night to people at dial.pipex.com addresses who don’t exist.<\/p>\n\n
\nFortunately, the spammers used an address I am happy to give out because everything that comes into it that is non from a recognised mailing list gets stuffed unread into the spam folder, and automatically expired after a day at most.<\/p>\n\n
The mail header says in part : And when I check out 202.107.227.100, I find<\/p>\n\n Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC2) Which suggests that plenty of people before me have had reason to spend spam complaints. GNAAAAAH.<\/span><\/p>\n\n The whois search runs out there, too. So I suppose I had just better sit bck and wait for my spam box to fill up. And, I guess, contact Pipex to explain my problems. Bollocks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" someone has put one of my addresses in the “from” of a spam. The first I knew about it ws this morning, when there were ten bounce messages in my own incoming spam folder; apparently I have been selling life … Continue reading
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\nReceived: (qmail 29110 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2002 06:16:29 -0000
\nReceived: from unknown (HELO ?domain) (202.107.227.100)
\nby depot-6.dial.pipex.com with SMTP<\/span>; 15 Jun 2002 06:16:29 -0000
\nFrom: alloneword@dial.pipex.com<\/p>\n\n
\nThese addresses have been further assigned to Asia-Pacific users.
\nContact info can be found in the APNIC <\/span>database,
\nat WHOIS.APNIC.NET <\/span>or http:\/\/www.apnic.net\/
\nPlease do not send spam complaints to APNIC.<\/span><\/p>\n\n