[LINK] Backscatter [was: My communications setup, email, Web...]

Stilgherrian stil at stilgherrian.com
Fri Feb 6 18:47:35 AEDT 2009


On 06/02/2009, at 6:30 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Anyone else notice more bounces from Spam that attributes you as the
> sender? Over the last two days?

Yes, though perhaps longer than 2 days.

I can't give any firm figures because I don't bother keeping stats on  
it.


> p.s.  IIRC, a member of Link was victimised bigtime by backscatter a  
> few
> years back, receiving 10,000's of bounces over a period of days.

I find an event of this scale happens 'several times a year" across a  
base of "a few hundred" email accounts.

See, that's Science. ;)

Stil


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