returned email

[Ron]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:56, Mark Musone wrote:
> They're both right.
> 
> It's not your machine that has the virus, it's somebody else's machine
> that has the virus, and that persons machine has your email address in
> it.
> That persons machine is sending out email using your return email
> address..
> The email that is being sent out is spam.
> 
> It's fairly unlikely that a real (human) spammer is using your email
> address for their spams. This is because #1, your not getting a lot of
> bounced mail messages (you'd be getting thousands an hour if that was
> the case). And #2,
> Theres usually very little reason for a spammer to use a real email
> address for a return. The last thing they want to do is bring attention
> to themselves..

Thanks guys!

I'll pass what I've  learned on to those I know have my email address
and who use MS 
-- 
Ron
ronb at cogeco.ca