[Techtalk] sent email without appearing in sent folder?

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:35:49PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
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> Thanks everyone. I don't believe Klez or anything related has infected my Red 
> Hat box. What got me wondering is I've been getting some really weird spam, 
> messages that purport to be ones that I sent, that bounced. I run them 
> through Sam Spade and Spamcop to see where they are really coming from, and 
> they don't come from me. But it's puzzling- what is the point??

"The point" from the spammers persepctive is that victims who receive
this spam and just hit "reply" and then flame away will send their
response to you, rather than annoying the spammer. Your role in this
particular episode is "stool pigeon". :-(

Malcolm