On Fre, 2004-10-08 at 01:59 -0300, Trevor Smith wrote: > So I'm getting tons of bounces because the spammers have made their way back > around to my personal domain and are sending out their crap with > <something>@haligonian.com as the forged From: address. Same here :-( > Does anyone know of anything I could do to get them to move on from spoofing > my domain to spoofing the next victim's domain? Do you use SPF (http://spf.pobox.com) yet? I do and if only everybody else did as well this would effectively prevent forging domains. > Is there any real harm to me that they are spoofing my domain, btw? I assume > that network admins are smart enough now that they realize almost all spam > addresses are spoofs and they don't go arbitrarily blacklisting poor suckers > like me. :-( Make no assumptions, they are most certainly wrong, I thought that every admin should have learned by now that e-mail worms use forged sender addresses but I still get a lot of 'virus found in your mail - check your computer' messages. Tom -- T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 finger thomasz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx for key Sacrilegia minuta puniuntur, magna in triumphis feruntur - Seneca
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