Sunday, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:17
Truckster,
That is true as I say most email addys are forged. However big corps like Yahoo! MSN etc don't take kindly to these people using their Trade Mark in this way and will sue if/when they find them.
They are usually not their own ISP they run their own web and email servers (as I do) but they must still have and ISP to connect their server to the network (ISP).
If you look at the headers you will see the path that the message takes through the various ISP's to get to your ISP and finally to your Inbox. It's the info in these headers that the authorities use to track the spammers. Most ISP,s have an anti-spam policy and will terminate their service. They (the spammers) will then of course move to another ISP and start again. Hopefully they are eventually prosecuted and sued.
Look out for the new marketing epedmic coming to your computer - instant messages. Those things that just pop up in a messenger (not MSN Messenger) window.
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