From:	David Jenkins <me AT jenkinsdavid DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Strange e-mails from someone in this group
Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 1997 02:39:56 +0100
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>
>No, there is nothing "funny" going on here, as I explained to 
>"ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA", my mailbox was full, and so any messages from 
>the list were bounced.  However, the combination of our network (Banyan) 
>and our mail gateway (Zoomit) results in the internal network name and the 
>error message being sent back in the _body_ of the message.  My internal 
>network email address is David Berry AT MPAU@CMCA.

I thought there was, I thought either you or someone posting to you
under his/her targets email was trying to get the target into trouble.
>
>DCA5 is the server that does the mail gateway processing.
>
>>That might be his tactic for defeating spam.
>
>Ah, no - although if it was that easy.....
>
I thought you'd replaced a "." with a "@". :)

>>You could always email postmaster AT dca DOT gov DOT au and tell them about it,
>>asking who's David Berry.
>
>Yeap, and the mail would come to me :)
>
It's all clear now that I know it was a mail-list server error.

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