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In message <19c02b9948%Graham@southlin.demon.co.uk>
          Graham Seale <Graham@southlin.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <ant2020521cbevuQ@aberry.demon.co.uk>
>           Andrew Berry <andrew@metallinks.com> wrote:
> 
> > In article <4897ba3d89reghems@argonet.co.uk>, Reg Hems
> > <URL:mailto:reghems@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > ISTR that information about interpreting email headers is available at
> > http://www.abuse.net/. I advise you to read it - JunkMail becomes a
> > much more useful program when used in conjunction with a bit of
> > knowledge.
> 
> Sometime back, I was given a recipe for what claimed to be a techie
> way of seriously inconveniencing a spammer. You modify your "From:"
> field to something like see.sig.for.real.addr@[127.0.0.-1]. Its a
> loopback that returns the spam to the spammer.
> 
> Then  fix your sig to contain something like ..
> real addr is graham (at) southlin (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk
> 
> Sigh - its a helluva faddle. Even this one (rare) posting will probably
> restart the trash stream.
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That should be whoeveryoulike@[127.0.0.1]. It'll only work with naive
spammers who post from their college/work or whatever. The idea is not to
return the mail to the spammer but to their postmaster who will hopefully
take action. It's a local loopback so the spam never leaves their system.

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Fred
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