[juneau-lug] Re: junk email routing
- From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:53:24 -0800
Jamie wrote:
> I'm aware that email headers can be spoofed. But I don't understand
> how
> spam, like the one below, can end up in my inbox. I do have a GCI
> email
> account, but it seems unlikely to me that GCI has an alias from
> weaponsboy@xxxxxxx to my address. So without my address anywhere in
> the
> message, how did I get it? Spam email below:
It's your contribution to the anti spam community Jamie. Each month GCI
picks a different "volunteer" to monitor spam for false positives and
directs it to their account. This month you're it! ;-)
Actually, you were probably blind-cc: and the headers aren't showing the
envelope To: field, thus you don't seem to appear in them. GCI's MTA saw
them though, and thus routed...
...Kevin
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CBJ MIS Dept. Network Systems Administrator, Mail
Administrator 155 South Seward Street ph: (907) 586-0242
Juneau, Alaska 99801 fax: (907 586-4500
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