RE: [cobalt-users] Spam

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Same here, I have a very exposed email address that has been 
> victim to spam for quite some time, it is a webmaster@ 
> address. I am getting a lot of messages claiming a mail 
> server intercepted a virus sent from that address. I am on a 
> RedHat 9 workstation and that address forwards to my mailbox. 
> All mail stays on the server using IMAP. So, I guess there is 
> no way to stop this thing from using our email address? So 
> far, no intercept messages have come back from anyone I know.
> 

That's because the messages are being sent by anyone who visited your
web pages. I'm glad I removed all email addresses from my web sites
years ago due to spam. I disabled the one address I had been using for a
spamtrap today due to the bad bounces. You would think that these
systems that are catching these virus attachments would be smart enough
to know the reply address is forged and would just delete the message.
-- 
C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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