From: wkaplan@u.washington.edu
To: me
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:01:49 -0800
I am out of the office until the 2nd of Jan. However, the main office will be open from the 26th-29th. If you need immediate assistance please write psyofc@u... See you next year.
W.
From: me
To: wkaplan@u.washington.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:51:34 -0800
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 09:01:49AM -0800, W. Kaplan wrote:
I am out of the office until the 2nd of Jan. However, the main office will be open from the 26th-29th. If you need immediate assistance please write psyofc@u... See you next year.
W.
Right. Thanks for letting me know, however randomly. I don't even know you. Nevertheless, another entry for my list! (lots today...)
http://students.washington.edu/f/email/bounce.shtml
From: wkaplan@u.washington.edu
To: me
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:58:15 -0800
Duncan,
I too have no idea who you are. Please understand how this works, nobody in your list of emails has "bounced" anything to you. Your e-mail address was apparently used as the return address for some sort of fraudulent spam. What you are receiving are auto-mated responses from employees email who are on vacation over the holidays. This is a response to the Spam not to you personally but, as your email is listed as the return address, it gets sent to you. I've attempted to locate which of the 100 or so emails i have received in the last week contains your address but have been unsuccessful.
In short, it is your address that was used in this spam that we are receiving, meaning it was your contribution to some fraudulent site or email that caused this. I suggest you desist from your public email postings as many are fellow administrators that i know personally and none will appreciate this. I can arrange to have your email address changed, this will take care of the problem all together.
W. Kaplan
From: me
To: wkaplan@u.washington.edu
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:55:42 -0800
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:58:15AM -0800, William Kaplan wrote:
I too have no idea who you are. Please understand how this works, nobody in your list of emails has "bounced" anything to you. Your e-mail address was apparently used as the return address for some sort of fraudulent spam. What you are receiving are auto-mated responses from employees email who are on vacation over the holidays. This is a response to the Spam not to you personally but, as your email is listed as the return address, it gets sent to you.
I call that "bouncing".
From <http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html>:
The traditional auto-responder
Do not use these systems. Inform your normal corespondents of your absence before you depart. Or let a co-worker answer your email in your absence. Publish FAQ information on a web-site.
If I were to report vacation messages to SpamCop (as I have every right to do), it is possible that your email could be cut off abruptly. So I'm doing a small favor by sending personalized emails instead.
I've attempted to locate which of the 100 or so emails i have received in the last week contains your address but have been unsuccessful.
It's likely that it got deleted by your spam filter after the reply was sent. Don't try to find it; it's not really worth your time.
In short, it is your address that was used in this spam that we are receiving, meaning it was your contribution to some fraudulent site or email that caused this.
If I understand correctly, you assert that the presence of my email address in a From means that I'm associated with the sender in some way.
I can demonstrate email address forgery, if you wish. It's of trivial difficulty.
I suggest you desist from your public email postings
Thank you for your suggestion, although it sounds more like a request or demand which was later edited into a suggestion.
as many are fellow administrators that i know personally and none will appreciate this.
I notify everyone who gets added to my list. The only two people who have responded at all are you and a graduate student from Scripps. After she apologized for being rude and making juvenile threats, I assisted her in setting up her email so that it forwarded to her new address rather than bouncing to all putative senders. Her email address is no longer on my webpage, but her name remains. I'm willing to help you do set up forwarding as well, but it probably won't be useful to you.
I can arrange to have your email address changed, this will take care of the problem all together.
I like my email address very much, actually, and have no interest in changing it. But thank you for your offer.
From: wkaplan@u.washington.edu
To: me
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:27:25 -0800
The University supplies it's employees with the vacation message system but as you have been here for 1 Qtr I wouldn't expect you to know this. I will take this to CnC, expect to hear from them soon.