As it happens, there is a recent article on http://slashdot.org from someone this happened to along with the usual discussion. I'm sure there's some solutions.
"Stephen Ingham" said: >The same thing has happened to me. I love to find out if you have any >success in this. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hewitt Tech >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:28 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed) > >An acquaintance sent me an email asking to have her email address >changed. >It seems that a spammer used her email address as a return address (I >guess >that's sometimes called spoofing) and of course she's getting deluged >with >angry responses from the spammer's activities. I pointed her to some of >the >anti-spam organization's web sites and told her that it is possible to >track >down the people who are trying to benefit from the spammer's advertising >and >then sue them but of course this is pretty difficult for any individual. >Has >anyone here run into this and if so what did they do about it? > >-Alex > >_______________________________________________ >gnhlug-discuss mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > >_______________________________________________ >gnhlug-discuss mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > -- ------- Tom Buskey _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
