My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer

Freerange writes "Mike Masnick wrote up his experience getting slammed by a somewhat new kind of spam attack that doesn't get much hype (yet?). A spammer spoofed his personal email address as the 'reply-to' for a batch of spam, with interesting results for Mike: "I can now answer the questions 'who replies to spam?' and (should anyone ever wonder) 'what are the hundreds of variations on bounced messages?'" From Politech."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, because, lord knows, MS is the expert at email security. Just ask anyone that has used Outlook Express for any significant amount of time in the past 4 years.