[Discuss] Question About Spam

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

On 2/24/2021 6:04 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> I recently started getting spam sent to an address that I supplied to an
> online vendor and no one else. I contacted them, and tried to send an
> example of the spam, but Google (who handles their e-mail) bounced my
> e-mail.
> 
> If this vendor is interested in seeing an example, how in heck do I send
> it to them? Do I have to put it on a web page? (Is it not possible to
> talk about e-mail spam over e-mail?)

You could put the email in a zip file or the like.   Old timers might
remember uuencode got used for rewriting things that you wanted to make
sure weren't interpreted by SMTP, but that isn't practical anymore.

HTH,
Matt