Re: [PCTECH] Spam from myself?!

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

He just has to worry about local clients adding the email address to a
filter.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gibbs" <dgibbs@xxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:16 PM
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Spam from myself?!


> > I just got my very first spam from myself.  That's right.
> > Someone is using my work email address to send out spam.
> > What really hurts is that they used my address as the return
> > path, so I might get blacklisted now!  There's nothing to be
> > done, right?
>
> Don't worry about getting blacklisted ... servers are blacklisted, not
email
> addresses.  It's assumed that spammers forge the from and return
addresses,
> so they are disregarded completely.
>
> david