grrrr

Now getting this kind of e-mail worries me... it's not the normal spam, but it's a sign that people (or virus spamming programs) have been using my e-mail to send spam. No, they have not hacked into my account, they've only hacked a mail server to send (or perhaps relay) a illegal mail message using my e-mail in the "from" field.

( Source-code of the e-mail )

Now, the question is, what can I do about it? Not too much, I'm afraid. Without the log files from the mail servers that the e-mail got bounced through, I can't track down the originating machine. That means whoever is in control of the machine can continue to send more of such e-mails.

Question now is, if we annoy and bug the company that the e-mail points to... will they take steps to stop it? Take this company, for example...
( benjamin% whois medd344.com )

Yeah. Not much we can do there... Would spammers spam pointless information? If the company was to suddenly disappear from the web then there wouldn't be a point for the spammers to spam links to the company, would there? Unless the spammers just want to spam, but I think that's unlikely... Granted, it takes little or no time and effort to do the spamming, a few crapscripts are all you need, and a open-relay... but.........

Oh, and that optout page actually loads. Surprise, surprise. I doubt it actually opts people out though. Maybe if we feed it some of the possible e-mail addresses medd344.com might have...

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<jamesd> "... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed."
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<sheenmaster> jamesd: being an OpenServer or UNIXWare user is like living in a house that hasn't been touched by a carpenter or inspected by an architect in years.  Every morning when you wake up, the neighbor's house is a little better.  You are justing thankful that the floor hasn't fallen out from beneath your bed, cause you know it'll be half a decade before its fixed.
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<sheenmaster> jamesd: being a Windows user is like living is a cheap vegas hotel.  Every morning, you wake up with a new disease.  The floor beneath your bed is likely to fall through at any time, but at least you can burn the hotel down and rebuild it or move to another room.
<jamesd> "Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of course you get it all back when you reboot..."
<jamesd>  -- Actual explanation obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.
<sheenmaster> haha
<sheenmaster> Damn Microsoft for coming up with better jokes than we do!
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(and... <CrazyClimber> top dangling modifier of the day:
<CrazyClimber> "A jet going 100 m.p.h. slammed into a deer, which ruptured a wing fuel tank and dumped 70 gallons of gas on the runway. "
<CrazyClimber> i knew about cows and methane, but...
<me_tew> Dammit, when are they going to REQUIRE that fuel tanks on deer be moved away from the wings.