> 1. Someone who wants it. > > 2. A spammer. > > 3. Poor Joe, which a filter can't help. >
It almost never hits "a spammer" and Poor Joe may consider it spam and be both morally and legally correct in the estimation that YOU sent Poor Joe that Spam. Also, there is a fourth category: 4. The Spammee Of course, this may be another version of "Poor Joe" but by bouncing a Joe Job off someone's poorly configured email server, you effectively use that server as a form of "semi-open relay" to deliver the spam to the Poor Joe Spammees out there. It's not an open relay in the traditional sense, but the effect is similar in many cases, and thus such servers do play the role of (semi) open relay. Recently, I have even noticed one or two spams being embedded in the HEADERS (big, honking multi-line advertisements) and one must wonder if these are mainly DESIGNED to spam system admins and postmasters who are likely the only one's reading such stuff in any volume. Weird. -- Herb Martin -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
