On 2017-03-03 at 23:36, Ben Finney wrote: > The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes: > >> In this case, either it's faked up to look as if it's coming from >> the person listed in the From: address but that person has actually >> never seen the message before it reaches us, or it was faked up >> when being sent _to_ that person (to appear as if it had come from >> the mailing list) and we don't even have the headers of the actual >> original spam. > > That's my tentative conclusion also. There is a commonality to all > these “don't send me this spam” messages, that essentially combine a > plausible complaint top-posted on a quoted spam message. > > I think the best explanation is that the entire message – complaint > and quoted part – were composed and sent by the spammer themselves. That was my original conclusion, but Philip Hands presented a persuasive argument otherwise on this same mailing list just this past week, so I now allow for both possibilities. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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