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Re: Weird failure message

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:34:09 -0800

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:06:58PM -0000, j.p.h_at_comcast.net wrote:
> The message below was originally rejected by your Spam Filter, but was re-sent through webmail. It was blocked for: F5_Unwanted_To_Address: curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I just got a bounce from postmaster_at_lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Sorry, but your last message to curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net was rejected by our Spam Filter for the following reason:
>
> Your message was not addressed to the correct recipient. The message was addressed to:
>
> F5_Unwanted_To_Address: curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net
>
> [...]
>
> I don\'t get this the to address it\'s complaining about is correct. Is anyone else having this problem?
>
> The bounce message doesn\'t give an indication of what message it was rejecting and I have a couple still outstanding, so I\'ll wait a bit before reposting.

I got one like this, too and thought it strange and suspicous. It
directed me to a URL at *.webmasters.com (I think) not sourceforge.net,
and contained a long code that could very well have been associated with my
e-mail address. It may be a clever way to harvest valid e-mail addresses,
or find out who's subscribing to this list.

>>> Dan

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Received on 2004-01-30