[Scspamcop] Re: General Spam Question

[antioch]

"Tim McGraw" <tmcgraw at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
news:fglonp$q4o$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> 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.

Tim
Thank you for your input - much appreciated
Rgds
Antioch