[Scspamcop] Re: General Spam Question

[Tim McGraw]

antioch wrote:
> Tim McGraw wrote:
>> antioch wrote:
>>> The other was why am I getting spam addressed to other email addresses.
>> Though it's a little ambiguous, what I think you're referring to is some 
>> other user on your ISP is in the "TO:" field, but not your user name.
> 
> That is exactly what I mean - sorry if I had not described the situation 
> better.  But I could not see any other way than to describe what is 
> happening - obviously not a common happening to be easily recognised.

It is very common and has been happening for years.

>> I suspect you received a BCC. Many systems will reject any email which has 
>> no "TO" recipient.
> 
> Not sure what you mean by the above, but none of these messages are Bcc: 
> They are all 'To' but not addressed to me.

BCC recipients aren't revealed in the "TO" header or in any other 
headers BCC recipients might receive for obvious reasons.

As to what "Many systems will reject any email which has no "TO" 
recipient" means: some systems will not accept an email which has only 
BCC recipients.