Sunday, November 25, 2012

Re: Email backscatter problem [was: Re: Is Vundle dead?]

On Nov 25, 2012, at 4:11 PM, "Benjamin R. Haskell" <vim@benizi.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, stosss wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been getting these for months. It's one of those "inbox protection" schemes, where the sender is forced to click a link to let the message pass through. It appears to be a mobile phone mailbox, so probably it was errantly subscribed in the first place. Can an admin take a look?
>>>
>>> Email is of the form:
>>>
>>> 13657...@139.com
>>>
>>> Where the local part (13657...) is a phone number. (A mobile prepaid card, according to Googling it.)
>>
>> I have been getting email from a admin@139.com with a lot of Chinese characters on both sides of admin. It is going straight into spam now and has been after the second time I got it.
>
> Yes, the emails come from admin@139.com, but they're on behalf of the 13657...@139.com subscriber (so `admin@` is akin to `postmaster@`).
>
> --
> Best,
> Ben

I have been getting these (from 139.com) too -- as far as I can tell, I've gotten one at least each time I've written to the list.

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b

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