The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > In this case, either it's faked up to look as if it's coming from the > person listed in the From: address but that person has actually never > seen the message before it reaches us, or it was faked up when being > sent _to_ that person (to appear as if it had come from the mailing > list) and we don't even have the headers of the actual original spam.
That's my tentative conclusion also. There is a commonality to all these “don't send me this spam” messages, that essentially combine a plausible complaint top-posted on a quoted spam message. I think the best explanation is that the entire message – complaint and quoted part – were composed and sent by the spammer themselves. -- \ “The internet's completely over.… Anyway, all these computers | `\ and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with | _o__) numbers and that can't be good for you.” —Prince, 2010-07-05 | Ben Finney