[SC-Help] Re: Windows xp spam question

[N. Miller]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:11:54 +0200, Stephen Johnston wrote:

> Does spam travel across different users in Windows XP? In other words, if 
> somebody gets my email address and starts spamming me, will they also spam 
> another user account on the same xp configuration?

The operating system has nothing to do with spam. Spammers send email to
email addresses. Those are assigned by email providers, and in most cases
involve remote email servers. If you have to different users sharing one
Windows XP system, and they don't share an email account with a second
email address as an alias, then they won't get the same spam.

However, if you have two users who are sharing an email account with
aliases, then the spam always goes to the same Inbox on the mail provider's
server. It will then appear to be spammed to different users on the same
Windows XP system. Or the same Windows 95 system. Or the same Redhat Linux
system.

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