Attn: Danny of Books 4 Sale - Want 2 Purchase

Pierre A Plauzoles ae779 at lafn.org
Fri Jan 14 02:32:29 EST 2000


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wanda wrote:

> Sorry, to put this back on here but Danny's server keeps bouncing my
> message back and really want this book.   Wanda Dameron
>
> Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
> >
> > The original message was received at Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:24:35 -0800 (PST)
> > from cs-lake1-p31.lafn.org [192.168.11.31] (may be forged)
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <foto28 at aol.comnospam>

Uhhh... Wanda, here is your answer:

> > > Foto28 at aol.com

The"aol.comnospam" is "aol.com" with a spam killer character string added.  All it does is to
force rejection of the message.  Most email address harvesting utilities copy what they find
as is and dump the result in a file which the user then puts into the "To:" field in his/her
spam messages as is (they don't want to be bothered to edit the addresses to remove the
spam-killer character strings - such as the "-nospam" you see above because it takes more
time than they want to spend on it).  Putting such strings in an address makes the receiving
host throw the message back because the address is then invalid and it can't tell who the
addressee is using the whole address given, which is the only way it can deliver it.

By the way, how was your holiday season?  I hope it was better than Kathleen's father's was:
he fell in the bathroom and broke his ankle "in several places", to quote his doctor.
Despite being an 88-year-old victim of rheumatoid arthritis and possibly osteoporosis who
also has severe edema in both legs below the knees, he is recovering nicely.  Would that we
be so lucky as to recover like he is doing when we have problems like he has!

Later....

Pierre A Plauzoles
sphinxangelorum at bigfoot.com
ae779 at lafn.org

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wanda wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Sorry, to put this back on here but Danny's server
keeps bouncing my
<br>message back and really want this book.&nbsp;&nbsp; Wanda Dameron
<p>Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
<br>>
<br>> The original message was received at Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:24:35 -0800
(PST)
<br>> from cs-lake1-p31.lafn.org [192.168.11.31] (may be forged)
<br>>
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal
errors -----
<br>> &lt;foto28 at aol.com<font color="#FF0000">nospam</font>></blockquote>
Uhhh... Wanda, here is your answer:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>> > Foto28 at aol.com</blockquote>
The"aol.comnospam" is "aol.com" with a spam killer character string added.&nbsp;
All it does is to force rejection of the message.&nbsp; Most email address
harvesting utilities copy what they find as is and dump the result in a
file which the user then puts into the "To:" field in his/her spam messages
as is (they don't want to be bothered to edit the addresses to remove the
spam-killer character strings - such as the "-nospam" you see above because
it takes more time than they want to spend on it).&nbsp; Putting such strings
in an address makes the receiving host throw the message back because the
address is then invalid and it can't tell who the addressee is using the
whole address given, which is the only way it can deliver it.
<p>By the way, how was your holiday season?&nbsp; I hope it was better
than Kathleen's father's was: he fell in the bathroom and broke his ankle
"in several places", to quote his doctor.&nbsp; Despite being an 88-year-old
victim of rheumatoid arthritis and possibly osteoporosis who also has severe
edema in both legs below the knees, he is recovering nicely.&nbsp; Would
that we be so lucky as to recover like he is doing when we have problems
like he has!
<p>Later....
<p>Pierre A Plauzoles
<br>sphinxangelorum at bigfoot.com
<br>ae779 at lafn.org</html>

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