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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, John Daragon wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 15:15, Steve Crook wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:22:01PM +0100, Paul Weaver wrote: > > > Just so I know I'm not going mad, someone care to confirm that some > > > spammer used my domain to send some rubbish to aolers? Anyone else ever > > > had this? > > > > I suffered exactly the same thing about a week ago. Lots of bounces > > from AOL mta's, all claiming my messages couldn't be delivered. > > > > They used a false username, but my ISP-provided domain name. I wrote to > > AOL and asked for details on the originating source of the messages, but > > surprise surprise, yet to hear anything back. > > The reason you're yet to hear anything back is that the original emails are > unlikely to have originated in any of AOL's domains (at least, none of the > ones I've seen so far have...) You can hardly blame AOL for bouncing email > directed at non-existent users to the address in the "Reply-to:" header... True. But it is still annoying when I get bounces with 'this is spam and has been bounced - I mean if its spam then it was sent via an open relay from a false address. I currently get about 100 email bounces a day for my droogs.org domain and it really is a problem - more so because I have been sloppy and given out all kinds of silly or made up address at the domain because - well hell its my domain and I'll use it how I want. cheers, A. ps last time I looked the webserver that hosted the online job applications for cornwall county council it wasn't responding so I couldn't even get the form to check if they had replaced the vdscript -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.