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Gordon Laurie <gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Has anyone else been getting strange e-mails like this one?
> 
> >From: RSerr55702 <RSerr55702@aol.com>
> >Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:16:19 EST
> >To: Gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk
> >Subject: ty
> >Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
> 
> >I'm very excited to try this out. Thank you very much. If I could help you
> >with anything...
> 
> >rserr624@earthlink.net
> 
> I'm wondering if it's some new way of spammers trying to find genuine
> e-mail addresses. My theory goes that you get this crap message (I've had 2
> or 3 in the past few days), then you reply to it along the lines of "Sorry,
> don't know what you're talking about........" and then the spamming
> b'stards have you down as a "live" address.
> 
> Any comments? I'm I just getting more paranoid in my old age. 

This is, I'm told, something that spammers do.  Apparently, if you reply
to a bit of spam asking to be taken off the mailing list (as they
suggest you might like to do), the sole effect is to have you listed as
a genuine live address, which they can then sell for more money.

What I'd like to know is how to forge a bounce messsage.

Rowland.

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