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From time to time I receive an email from someone (not necessarily the same
person) telling me that a message from me was deleted on such and such a date. The subject is *Not read: the original subject*. I don't always recognise sending the original message in the first place and I don't see why I should be notified of the fact that it has been deleted from the recipient's computer. Is this virus-related or does it happen to everyone? Thanks Rob Graham |
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![]() "Rob graham" schreef in bericht ... From time to time I receive an email from someone (not necessarily the same person) telling me that a message from me was deleted on such and such a date. The subject is *Not read: the original subject*. I don't always recognise sending the original message in the first place and I don't see why I should be notified of the fact that it has been deleted from the recipient's computer. Is this virus-related or does it happen to everyone? Thanks Rob Graham not by me |
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yes and yesg
This is frequently caused by either spammers and/or viruses sending email spoofed as your address, and you are the one who gets the resulting bounces and returns from the server. I've noticed recently a number of spammers using 'notify on delete' options, which may help them to verify an address (they get paid more for verified addresses when they sell their contact lists) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Rob graham" wrote in message ... From time to time I receive an email from someone (not necessarily the same person) telling me that a message from me was deleted on such and such a date. The subject is *Not read: the original subject*. I don't always recognise sending the original message in the first place and I don't see why I should be notified of the fact that it has been deleted from the recipient's computer. Is this virus-related or does it happen to everyone? Thanks Rob Graham |
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Yes, I am just agreeing with Noel
![]() If the name in the from line is fake (which spammers do regularly) the poor old mail server (or in this case the recipients computer) has no way of knowing that, so it sends the reject or deleted message to the fake address. Unfortunately spammers scan newsgroups for email addresses, which is why Microsoft use a "Black Hole" address in the Web interface (You will see some posts with discussions.microsoft.com or something like that) which accepts the email and simply trashes it. You can use somedomain.invalid or example.com too, which avoids choosing a real name by accident and thus becoming part of the problem ! In future you might want to avoid using a real email address in all newsgroups, either insert something like REMOVETHIS inserted in the first part (before the @ sign) or if you don't want any email replies at all just stick .invalid on the end instead of .com or .net, whatever. As part of an experiment I have used the same email address in newsgroups for several years and am now up to 250,000 junk emails per year ![]() contrast and address I use for work / business gets no spam at all (Probably shouldn't have said that ![]() See if BT can give you a new email address (Or another one you can keep very private) and compare for yourself. Had any snow in the UK yet? I see our forecast for the coming week looks like going down to -9 on Tuesday, nothing much above 0 at all after today. Charlie (From around Coventry, now in Iowa) "Rob graham" wrote in message ... From time to time I receive an email from someone (not necessarily the same person) telling me that a message from me was deleted on such and such a date. The subject is *Not read: the original subject*. I don't always recognise sending the original message in the first place and I don't see why I should be notified of the fact that it has been deleted from the recipient's computer. Is this virus-related or does it happen to everyone? Thanks Rob Graham |
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usually a response to a virus sent by another infected pc faking your
address as the sender address, removed by server side software and stupidly bounced back to the wrong person or the propogation method chosen by some viruses delete unopened all unsolicited mail -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Rob graham" wrote in message ... From time to time I receive an email from someone (not necessarily the same person) telling me that a message from me was deleted on such and such a date. The subject is *Not read: the original subject*. I don't always recognise sending the original message in the first place and I don't see why I should be notified of the fact that it has been deleted from the recipient's computer. Is this virus-related or does it happen to everyone? Thanks Rob Graham |
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![]() The interesting thing is that these Not read messages always come from the same small group of people. Rob |
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