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>On 9/23/05, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
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>>Today i received an email that appearred to have come from myself. When
>>I viewed my mailbox file I noticed that the header included an email
>>address of " chaos at mauimail.com"
>>
>>I checked out the web site and it claims to be antispam but it also
>>appears to be a marketing company that is offering email services.
>>
>>Has anyone received anything like this? The text of the message is about
>>M$ Orfice. Anyone interested in seeing it, I'd be happy to send it to you.
>>    
>>
>
>I haven't gotten that particular one, but I've received similar
>"self-addressed" spam.  It's an easy way to avoid bounce messages
>flooding the spam server - set the sender address as the receipient.
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Anyway to stop it??

Would filtering for your own address in the from work?


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