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Hi Nancy, Spammers use addresses they skim from mailing lists, newsgroup postings, webpages (like Facebook or MySpace) etc to forge outgoing email addresses to millions of unlucky recipients. They used your email address as a 'From:', knowing that any bounces will go to you and not them. Spammers use 'valid' forged addresses because many mail services will check (via a ping across the internet) to see if a sender address is valid before even allowing an email into their queue. There's really nothing you (or anyone) can do about it. The only way to minimize spam and things like email forging is to never post, write or advertise your email address anywhere including webpages. Even then, you would be surprised how spammers can still get your email address. Since you weren't the one sending the emails, just delete the bounces and chalk it up to experience on the internet. Spammers rotate among millions of addresses at any given moment so your address may or may never be used again. The reason you see the bounces is that lazy admins of spam filters around the world send bounces back to the sender, even though that address may be forged (instead of checking the path and IP numbers which will give you the real sender most of the time), so the innocent address owner gets the bounce from the email the spammer sent. CCN Help ---------------- On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, John Little wrote: > I just looked at our list of Chebucto junkmail, and it appears as if > some of it, about 10%, comes from our own address. Is there anything we > can do about this? I would hate to think that other people are getting > junk mail from us. > Thanks for your help. > Nancy Little
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