[wplug] Fw: Returned mail: User unknown

[Greg Simkins]

I guess I should be comforted by this diagnosis (that my bouncebacks are due 
to forging my address - not actually spamming through my server).  I suppose 
I am helpless to stop forging my address.  Is there anything I can do to 
make myself less attractive as a forgee?  Perhaps I should feel flattered. 
I suppose the bigger presence you have on the Internet, the more people want 
to forge your email address.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duncan Hutty" <dhutty+wplug at ece.cmu.edu>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [wplug] Fw: Returned mail: User unknown


> On 05/16/2005 08:30 AM, Greg Simkins wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>  You were just talking about Botnets.  I am very suspicious that I 
>> already belong to several.  I got these bouncebacks from AOL, suggesting 
>> to me that somebody is running mail through my server (which is behind a 
>> PIX firewall). Is there any way that I can determine whether my computers 
>> are owned by others? Here are the headers:
>>
>
> <snippage of stuff that probably should have been linked to, not posted>
>
> At first glance I would say: isn't this more likely to be the response
> (from AOL) to someone attempting to send mail to non-existent aol users
> while forging your address as the sender?
>
>
> -- 
> Duncan Hutty
> System Administrator, ECE
> Carnegie Mellon University
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