[LUNI] OT: Backscatter

[Eric MacAdie]

I noticed I was getting a lot of these about a month ago. I was going to 
post to the list to ask if anybody else was getting these. My catch-all 
address got 10,000 messages today.

Eric MacAdie


Eric Ellington wrote:
> I figured this Article on Slashdot just spread the idea wider and wider.
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0452257
>
> My email servers at work have just been getting more and more.
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Mike Scott <luni at pyewacket.org> wrote:
>   
>> Just wondering if anyone has noticed a surge in "backscatter" in the
>> past 24 hours.
>> I have gotten about 100+ "undeliverable" email messages in my SPAM
>> folder from people I have never heard of.
>> I don't know if it's just my turn, or there's some new zombie army on
>> the loose.
>>
>> - Mike Scott
>>
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