Dodi Schultz
July 25th, 2005, 06:13 PM
>> Dodi, I thought that when you got an "undeliverable" message back
>> that you had never sent, it usually meant that someone had somehow
>> collected YOUR Email address by grabbing info from someone else's
>> address list and then using your address to send Email, hence the
>> Email that was sent would bounce back to you.
That's exactly right, Guerri. I was just wondering if there was anything
one could actually DO about it. It's not spam, i.e., it's not as if someone
were deluging CompuServe clients with a plug for Viagra or something (I DO
forward those things to the spam department, and AFAIK they are in fact
used to build barriers).
CompuServer can't do anything about some offshore (or even onshore) creep
picking up your address and mine and shooting off all kinds of crud giving
our addresses as the senders--and of course what they're sending is porn,
or illegal spam, and a lot of target addresses will be wrong, and the
auto-response of the receiving domain is to send it "back" whence it "came"
and say, sorry, nobody here by that name. Just as they would if YOU'd
really sent it to a wrong or outdated address.
It SHOULD be against the law, just as it would be illegal for somebody to
send off an envelope carrying porn, or anthrax, or whatever, with your
return postal address. But where does one complain about E-MAIL with fake
return addresses?
--Dodi
>> that you had never sent, it usually meant that someone had somehow
>> collected YOUR Email address by grabbing info from someone else's
>> address list and then using your address to send Email, hence the
>> Email that was sent would bounce back to you.
That's exactly right, Guerri. I was just wondering if there was anything
one could actually DO about it. It's not spam, i.e., it's not as if someone
were deluging CompuServe clients with a plug for Viagra or something (I DO
forward those things to the spam department, and AFAIK they are in fact
used to build barriers).
CompuServer can't do anything about some offshore (or even onshore) creep
picking up your address and mine and shooting off all kinds of crud giving
our addresses as the senders--and of course what they're sending is porn,
or illegal spam, and a lot of target addresses will be wrong, and the
auto-response of the receiving domain is to send it "back" whence it "came"
and say, sorry, nobody here by that name. Just as they would if YOU'd
really sent it to a wrong or outdated address.
It SHOULD be against the law, just as it would be illegal for somebody to
send off an envelope carrying porn, or anthrax, or whatever, with your
return postal address. But where does one complain about E-MAIL with fake
return addresses?
--Dodi