[Scspamcop] Re: General Spam Question

[David Bolt]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, antioch wrote:-

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>Agreed - there was no direct question in  the initial post but in my reply
>to David Bolt I asked the following questions:- "One of the things I was
>wondering was who/what/how that [SPAM] is getting
>there.

AFAIK, Virgin Media/NTL/Blueyonder have a spam filter in place. From
what another Virgin Media user says in another anti-spam forum, it's not
that good, but it's quite possible that that is the source of the
[SPAM*].

>The other was why am I getting spam addressed to other email addresses."

That would be because the spammer added your address to the BCC header.
The BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy, and is almost identical to a CC,
or carbon copy, except that usually you won't see your address in the
To: or CC: headers.

>> Help fight spam by "educating" the lax, zombie-hosting ISPs:
>> http://pages.infinit.net/filmore/educateYourISP.htm
>
>Oh I do - ntl/virgin have them - some work in their customer services
>technical department :-)
>If I get to the bottom of this I will post back - probably after Xmas :-(

I'm glad you didn't specify a year.

>Thanks you to all - I think I might also have gotten away with crossing
>swords with M.E.  Phew!

:-)


Regards,
        David Bolt

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