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Five Barns Email Trouble?!?

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Five Barns Email Trouble?!?

Bill Grumbine, Kutztown PA

>Good morning all

I have received several emails from people who have asked me to put them on the email list, but have not gotten the email. Now every year I manage to miss someone here or there, and I eventually get caught up, but this looks to be of a more nefarious nature, because some of the people who are writing are definitely on the list.

Coincidentially, I have been getting hundreds of returned emails which I never sent out. This tells me that a real spammer has gotten my email and is using it in the return address field. This may have caused me to be put into spam filters by some ISPs. I have responded to everyone who has written. If you do not have something by the end of the day, please write again, and bear with me. I really don't want to have to start up a new email account, but if I have to I will to get around this.

Thanks.

Bill

Re: Five Barns Email Trouble?!?

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Re: Five Barns Email Trouble?!?

Ed Falis

>"Coincidentially, I have been getting hundreds of returned emails which I never sent out. This tells me that a real spammer has gotten my email and is using it in the return address field."

Bill,

It more likely means that someone who has your email address in their outlook address book has an infected computer. It's a standard worm technique - the worm mails itself to everyone in the address book, and randomly picks names in the address book to use as the "sender".

- Ed

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