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[SpamCop-List] Re: Domain Name Hijacked to Send Spam

Mike Easter MikeE at ster.invalid
Sun Apr 30 09:59:48 EDT 2006


D-W-S wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:45:37 -0700:
> 
>> Correct.  That's what it looked to me that Ant was saying.  Why did
>> you say 'No it isn't'?  To George or to Ant?
> 
> To Ant.
> 
>>>> You meam it's being used as a false "From:"? If so, I'm also
>>>> getting a lot. It's called backscatter.
> 
> Ant later clarified this post, but at first sight it looked like it
> was claiming that forgery of an unrelated domain in the "From:"
> address was backscatter.

Got it.

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Mike Easter
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