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Yes but we've been ignoring it.
Dick S.

On Jul 13, 2011 7:05 PM, "Rob Kendrick" <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 04:40:51PM -0600, HyperHacker wrote:
>> It looks like some jerk has recently started spoofing my address in
>> their spam. I'm curious if they possibly got access to the account or
>> just forged the headers.
>
> Remember that the From: field in email is completely meaningless. It's
> the equivilent of writing "From: The Queen" on the back of an envelope.
> Spammers routinely abuse this trust flaw by setting the From: field to
> be one of the addresses in their mailing list. Real addresses in the
>>From field are more likely to get through.
>
>> Has there been spam coming to the list from this address recently?
>
> Not that I've noticed, but the mail server that runs lua-l is pretty
> anal about the submissions it accepts and processes.
>
> B.
>