100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: ken [ken () nextgencommunications net]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:57 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: 100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering

Dave,

I found this article (courtesy of SlashDot) and thought you might want
to share it with the members of your list.

As quoted from the article,

"The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two
every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara and
Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you."

You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you
been hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer?

Nope, you're just getting a little backscatter -- bounceback messages
from legitimate e-mail servers that have been fooled by the spammers."
[snip]

The article can be read here:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1698505531;pp;1;fp;16;fpid;1

A shortened URL is provided in case of word wrap:
http://shrinkify.com/5pc

Respectfully,

Ken DiPietro
NextGen Communications


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