[SC-Help] My address in spam From: line

[Roy Lewallen]

I know this topic has come up from time to time on this newsgroup, but 
I'm hoping there might be a way of dealing with it that I've overlooked.

Several times in the past, a spammer or worm has forged my email address 
in the From line of the spam or worm message. I'd get bounced messages 
for a while, then it fades out.

But this time it's happening in big volume and for a protracted period. 
I've been getting bounce messages for over 2 weeks now, and the volume 
is currently at 100 - 150 per day (on top of my normal background of 200 
or so spams a day), increasing with time if anything. It seems to be one 
spammer, hawking on-line medicine. Sucker is really hanging in there, 
and must be sending out huge gobs of mail -- I assume I'm not the only 
one getting nailed, and I'm only seeing the ones that bounce.

My email address is necessarily public because I sell my products 
(software) on the web. Even if there were any effective way to conceal 
it from the spammers but make it visible to potential customers, it 
would take a long, long time before all web references faded out and I 
got dropped from the spam lists.

Does anybody have any creative ideas about how to deal with this?

Thanks,
Roy Lewallen