[TheForge] qth.net bake sale?

Fri Aug 2 18:17:01 2002

In a message dated 8/2/02 4:34:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> A huge amount of the spam is on the yahoo mail server and I'm about to block
> anything from yahoo

The From: field in spam is invariably forged, whether it's posted to a list, 
or sent directly. They could make it look like it came from 
[email protected] if they wanted to. Hell, if I were sending from Outlook, 
I could make *this* look like it came from [email protected]. If you're 
blocking based on the From: line, you're almost certainly blaming the wrong 
ISPs. You need to look at the Received: lines in the header to determine the 
real source, and I'm unaware of any email clients with Rules that'll do that.

I've been tracking spam to this address since 1/98 (allemanse.com/fight), and 
as of this writing, Yahoo isn't even included among almost 1100 separate 
legitimately responsible ISPs. But there's no question many spammers have 
tried to make it look otherwise. And again, for lists, configure them as 
private so spammers can't find them in the directory, and make sure your 
marketing preferences are set appropriately.

   Bill Alleman
   Tavern Village Forge
   Weare, NH

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