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Re: Spam with return receipt

From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:22:06 -0400

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:41:52 CDT, Roger Safian said:

In the last couple of days I have noticed a dramatic increase in
spam that has been tagged with return receipt requested.  I have
disabled this on my system, but have it set to notify me when a
message is so tagged.  I like to know who is spying on me.  ;-)


Seen here as well.  My first guess was that it's an attempt to verify that
the destination address is "live" - except the return receipts always bounce. ;)

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Spam with return receipt Roger Safian (Sep 23)
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- Re: Spam with return receipt Robin Polak (Sep 23)
- Re: Spam with return receipt Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 24)
- Re: Spam with return receipt Morrow Long (Sep 24)
- Re: Spam with return receipt Joel Rosenblatt (Sep 24)