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Re: Where is all this bad mail coming from?

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From: Daniel Cwiertniewicz
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 21:14
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In article <6389@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>, doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) writes:
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|> |
|> |----- Transcript of session follows -----
|> |<<< EXPN chahal
|> |550 chahal... User unknown
|> |<<< QUIT
|> |
|> |----- No message was collected -----
|> |
|> 
|> The only difference between the different ones I get is the the user name
|> changes.  There is never any information about where this mail came from.
|> None of the names following the EXPN line are anyone who has ever been at this
|> site.  I can only assume that this mail is coming in from the outside.
|> 
|> Can anyone give me some information as to why I am collecting so much mail of
|> this sort?  Is my machine failing to forward this mail on to some unknown
|> site?
|> 

I beleive that the netfind program run off bruno.cs.colorado.edu generates this
message in its' attempts to locate e-mail addresses.  Quite a nice service, but 
this part is mildly annoying, especially when you don't know about, and can't
use the service.  This is a free service.  Give it a try, I use it all the time.

-- 
Daniel Cwiertniewicz, Systems Analyst, C&IT, WSU, (313)-577-0787  
ignore the header, my real address is dan@foghorn.pass.wayne.edu
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From: dan@jake.cc.wayne.edu (Daniel Cwiertniewicz)
Subject: Re: Where is all this bad mail coming from?
Message-ID: <1992Nov2.211426.28884@cs.wayne.edu>
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Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit MI U.S.A
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 21:14:26 GMT
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