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The Ghost In The Machine
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spam. As all arrived at my old, now spam pot mailbox on my ISP and 1649 that it was put there by the originating2 mailer.
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:33:54 +0100 It would be mildly interesting to research the details of the ad campaign Microsoft recently put on its website; the claim...
Let's to a mental exercise. Be careful now, don't strain something. HE doesn't use zgv. I don't even have it installed. Thus, it is clearly a minor 3rd party...
2 By the first mailer that filled out the header properly(?) - there is no guarantee, however, that a previous mailer hasn't found an open relay which is what put the header in; but then it's still a majority of mailers that are MS powered that are the first "net-wide" relays - a proper check would require back tracking the mail route.
If I had got round to it, that's exactly what I would be doing...
It was a rough-and-ready analysis (mainly by using grep, wc, sort, uniq in various combinations); I'm sure proper analysis tracing the relays would be more interesting - and accurate?
I don't bother to read any of it - it gets filtered straight into a spam folder3
3 Well, used to: it now just sits filling up the eaddr causing further spam to bounce (somewhere). (On My spam pot eaddr - current levels of spam on my current eaddr is such that I can handle it manually; as, for some unknown reason, the filter I have in place keeps getting disabled all by itself.)
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Not to mention being asked to confirm your online banking details for a bank with which you have no account?