On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Matt Kettler wrote: > Another thing I've been noticing recently.. some idiot has been culling > the web archives of mailing lists, and is trying to send spam emails to > MESSAGE ID's of posts I've made. Check your mail logs! > > One or more of those would make a great spamtrap.
Actually this kind of thing has been going on for some time. I still occasionally see spam sent to a Message-ID address derived from a machine that died years ago. The last owner of it was an active Usenet poster and is probably in all kinds of news archives. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include <std_disclaimer.h> Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{