From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 6 8:54:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ermis.cc.duth.gr (ermis.cc.duth.gr [192.108.114.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27CF37B418 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from duth.gr (emily.cc.duth.gr [192.108.114.21]) by ermis.cc.duth.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA6Gruw51141; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 18:53:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kkonstan@duth.gr) Message-ID: <3BE815A4.44939BBB@duth.gr> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 18:53:56 +0200 From: Konstantinos Konstantinidis Organization: I've heard of it. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for opinions: what is spam References: <3BE81422.7080304@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Moran wrote [heavily snipped]: > Got an email today through the "moreinfo@" address for my > company, which is listed on the web site on the contact > page. The email stated that "I got your email from a > list server". > > Now, technically this is a lie, because the "moreinfo@" address > is _never_ used to _send_ mail, so it would never appear on > any list server. Perhaps it's got something to do with me being paranoid, but I read this as "I got your email form a server we spammers use that hosts a list of valid email addresses so heeeeeeuge, you wouldn't believe". > So my first question is: "Is this spam?" Yep, it definitely is, I received a similarly worded mail recently, and it was addressed to a sales@ account that it's only sign of existense is a link on a corporate site. --kkonstan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message