[Scspamcop] Re: eh?

[Mike Easter]

jg wrote:
> Mike Easter

>> Maybe they sort out the phishes to the various volunteers to look
>> over and one of the volunteers routes his allotment via the .jp
>> mailserver to gmail to help with the part of it which is just spam.

> Lets assume its a volunteer, as you say. Wouldn't do much good to
> route samples through an ISP that rejects it as spam.

It wasn't rejected as spam, exactly.  It was rejected by gmail as
'illegal attachment'.

This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

Your message is larger than the destination computer is willing to
accept, so it was returned.  The error message below indicates the size
of your message and the maximum size allowed by the receiving E-mail
system.  You may be able to split your message into several smaller
pieces and have them delivered separately.

Your message was rejected by gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com for the
following reason:

     5.7.0 Illegal Attachment m29si6949637poh

> That said, think I just read about the very spam I had sent - had a
> .zip attachment which apparently contained a nasty virus.

I didn't unzip it; many zips have malware.

> Think I saw it at alt.spam.
> I've been to their site - maybe I'll sign up and see how it goes...

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin