From: "Anthony.Appleyard" Organization: Materials Science Centre To: DJGPP AT DELORIE DOT COM Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:44:32 GMT-1 Subject: Spam Reply-to: Anthony DOT Appleyard AT umist DOT ac DOT uk Message-ID: <10891E642F7@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> S DOT P DOT AT delorie DOT com, Woodring wrote:- > Do you have a car? Do you like music on the go? Have you given any thought > about upgrading the car stereo system? ... There is an email group called Techdiver that got so pestered with spam that now they do this:- User X sends a message to techdiver. Techdiver bounces the message to X's apparent email address, with an instruction to send back within 2 days or so a special instruction authorizing the message, with a serial number which varies unpredictably between messages. User X sends that authorizing message, with the serial number statedq as a parameter. Techdiver THEN circulates the message. This eliminates all spammers etc who put false From: addresses on their messages.