[tex-live] off topic: about annoying spam

Thomas Esser te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Sun Jun 29 12:35:54 CEST 2003


> I'm bombarded by a spam from known addressees, like Art Ogawa,
> Graham Williams, etc., as well as receiving so many mail delivery
> rejections that I'm sending something wrong from OutlookExpress
> (I've never used such bete! Moreover I do not use windows for sending
> or receiving mails at all!). Is that only my case?

Some viruses/spammers fake the sender adress. So, it is more then likely
that Art Ogawa etc. did not send these mails to you.

On the other hand, if someone uses your adress as sender, then you'll
get all the bounces.

That's how email works these days :-(

Thomas


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