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[SC-Help] Re: response directly? from yahoo

Berny bar_n0ne at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 10 15:51:34 EST 2005


 See below:

"sph" <sph at sph.dk> wrote in message news:dktbeq$201$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> It appears that I´ve recieved a couple of automated responses to spam
> reports directly from yahoo. It is my understanding that any response
would
> be send to spamcop, and then forwarded to me. As far as I remeber Yahoo
was
> hosting spamvertized pages, and not actually the spammers. I´m not a
> proficient header interpreter, but I do see spamcop mentioned in them. I
> have pasted one of the headers below (without my own mail adress).
> My question is:
>  Is it true that spamhosts can reply directly (without some sort of hidden
> code)?.
>
> Received: from appleton6.uni2.net (appleton6.uni2.net [129.142.244.20])
>  by ting.uni2.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jA95uPLg032287
>  for <xxxxxxx>; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 06:56:25 +0100

right here is where apleton uni/net recieved the reply from SC:

> Received: from vmx1.spamcop.net (vmx1.spamcop.net [204.15.82.27])
>  by appleton6.uni2.net (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id
> jA95uNIN002853
>  for <xxxxxxx>; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 06:56:24 +0100
> Received: from sc-app1.ironport.com (HELO spamcop.net) (204.15.82.20)
>   by vmx1.spamcop.net with SMTP; 08 Nov 2005 21:56:23 -0800
> X-SpamCop-Reply-Ids: 1548721265
> X-Spamcop-Return-Path: <uk-abuse at cc.yahoo-inc.com>
> Received: from vmx2.spamcop.net (vmx2.spamcop.net [204.15.82.29])
>  by sc-app1.soma.ironport.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389101A6DF
>  for <xxxxxxxx at reports.spamcop.net>; Tue,  8 Nov 2005 21:55:01 -0800 (PST)

Here SC received the reply from Yahoo:

> Received: from mrout1.corp.ukl.yahoo.com (217.12.1.87)
>   by vmx2.spamcop.net with ESMTP; 08 Nov 2005 21:55:00 -0800
> Received: from kanasvr1.cc.ukl.yahoo.com (kanasvr1.cc.ukl.yahoo.com
> [217.12.1.199])
>  by mrout1.corp.ukl.yahoo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/y.out) with SMTP id
> jA95rrkC075842
>  for <xxxxxxx at reports.spamcop.net>; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 05:54:00 GMT
> DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=serpent; d=yahoo-inc.com; c=nofws;
q=dns;
>  h=precedence:auto-submitted:date:to:subject:from:reply-to:
>  mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer;
>  b=K5xtfUE427sQAPx9VUWZ7enMlRAV5L/FajPBEZD5n115otJWyEs3JRfbs+db/fLe
> Message-Id: <200511090554.jA95rrkC075842 at mrout1.corp.ukl.yahoo.com>
>
>

The mail to you originated from Yahoo, was sent (and addressed) to SpamCop,
and forwarded to you  Yahoo did not reply directly to your usual email
address.




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