20 Aug 2007
Spam Blowback

SPAMI seem to be being victimized by a new kind of SPAM - returned mail. Even though I never sent it.

It seems as though some bogus SPAMmer has been using one of my email addresses as the return path in his headers. Consequently, I am getting flooded with all the bogus flotsam and jetsam of the email system - autoreplies for vacations and boxes full, no such address messages and various other errors and administrivia. The real upshot: most of the messages contain the full text of the bounced message, so I get the SPAM, too! But my filters don't catch it, because they're configured to ignore system messages. That'll be changing.

Something's gotta give on this SPAM situation, before it makes email completely unusable.

06:35 /Home | 1 comment | permanent link

After Foreclosure, a Big Tax Bill From the I.R.S.

In football, this would be known as "piling on"...

Americans who have lost their homes may be subject to income taxes on their canceled debt.

(link) [New York Times]

06:16 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link