[ILUG] Spam and more spam

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Justin Mason wrote:

> *forged* by spammers.

Sure? 

I just cant see the reason why, if one forges X-Mailer, one would set
it to such a distinctive mailer. _ALL_ mail (ex list mail - which i
dont spam check) i receive with that X-Mailer is spam, bar 3 out of
4k odd in my INBOX (couple of years of email) versus 26 counted by
spamprobe. Of the 4 in my inbox, one reference is from a reply to a
spam complaint i made - the 'good' reference hence is of the quoted
headers of the spam email. The 3rd reference is a paypal-scam mail i
received yesterday.

Outlook mailer headres forged, sure, but I just dont understand why 
a spammer would paint a huge target on their email by forging the The 
Bat. I dont know the bat, but i'm presuming it has some kind of 
advanced list/list merge facilities and hence is used by naive 
'spammers' (eg business who dont realise how evil UCE is).
 
> --j.

regards,
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