Re: bounced spam

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Mike Gorse wrote: 
> Lately my email address has been used a lot by spammers... 

This practice goes by the name of "joe jobs." 


> It isn't clear to me what, if anything, I can do about this. 

Aside from following safe emailing practices (essentially never making 
your address public, which can't always be avoided), about the only 
thing you can do is set up SPF[1] records, and hope the adoption of SPF 
continues to grow. 

1. http://www.openspf.org/

  -Tom 

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