Why do I receive email sent to a different address

[Guest]

I keep getting email with adult content. I add senders to the rules list; I
add specific words to the rules list but of course the senders just change
their address and words are broken up with hyphens etc. It is most annoying.
I cannot understand how they come to me in the first place as the address is
never correct with sometimes just a few correct letters in the name. I never
reply or click unsubscribe of course. Do people agree with me that there
should be laws against this? What if I was a child reading this? Is there
anything more I can do?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Is this the first time you receive spam? Never heard of it either? Yes,
there are laws against it (in many countries) but it's hard to track down
the spammers. Most of the time you receive it either as a BCC or as a member
of an ever increasing distributionlist.

Rules won't help. You are better off with a junk e-mail filter. Outlook 2003
has one built in which is very effective for me. There are many third party
tools for this as well.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I keep getting email with adult content. I add senders to the rules list; I
add specific words to the rules list but of course the senders just change
their address and words are broken up with hyphens etc. It is most annoying.
I cannot understand how they come to me in the first place as the address is
never correct with sometimes just a few correct letters in the name. I never
reply or click unsubscribe of course. Do people agree with me that there
should be laws against this? What if I was a child reading this? Is there
anything more I can do?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Is this the first time you receive spam? Never heard of it either? Yes,
there are laws against it (in many countries) but it's hard to track down
the spammers. Most of the time you receive it either as a BCC or as a member
of an ever increasing distributionlist.

Rules won't help. You are better off with a junk e-mail filter. Outlook 2003
has one built in which is very effective for me. There are many third party
tools for this as well.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I keep getting email with adult content. I add senders to the rules list; I
add specific words to the rules list but of course the senders just change
their address and words are broken up with hyphens etc. It is most annoying.
I cannot understand how they come to me in the first place as the address is
never correct with sometimes just a few correct letters in the name. I never
reply or click unsubscribe of course. Do people agree with me that there
should be laws against this? What if I was a child reading this? Is there
anything more I can do?

 

[Vanguard]

I keep getting email with adult content. I add senders to the rules
list; I
add specific words to the rules list but of course the senders just
change
their address and words are broken up with hyphens etc. It is most
annoying.
I cannot understand how they come to me in the first place as the
address is
never correct with sometimes just a few correct letters in the name.
I never
reply or click unsubscribe of course. Do people agree with me that
there
should be laws against this? What if I was a child reading this? Is
there
anything more I can do?

The To header is *not* used to specify who is the recipient of an
e-mail. The e-mail client aggregates all the fields (To, Cc, and Bcc)
in its UI to compile a list of RCPT-TO commands that it then sends to
the SMTP mail server. It is the RCPT-TO commands that tells the mail
server where to deliver the mail. In fact, listservers work by the
author sending the listserver a copy of the message and then a file
containing a list of the recipients (so they are separate items) and
the listserver sends a copy of the mail to each recipient in that
file. The To, Cc, Bcc, and Subject headers are *optional* per RFC
2822; i.e., they may appear at a minimum of zero times or a maximum of
one time. They are NOT used to route the mail. They are *data* that
is within the body of the mail that gets sent during the DATA command,
so the sender can put whatever they want in those headers or not have
them at all.

 

[Vanguard]

I keep getting email with adult content. I add senders to the rules
list; I
add specific words to the rules list but of course the senders just
change
their address and words are broken up with hyphens etc. It is most
annoying.
I cannot understand how they come to me in the first place as the
address is
never correct with sometimes just a few correct letters in the name.
I never
reply or click unsubscribe of course. Do people agree with me that
there
should be laws against this? What if I was a child reading this? Is
there
anything more I can do?

The To header is *not* used to specify who is the recipient of an
e-mail. The e-mail client aggregates all the fields (To, Cc, and Bcc)
in its UI to compile a list of RCPT-TO commands that it then sends to
the SMTP mail server. It is the RCPT-TO commands that tells the mail
server where to deliver the mail. In fact, listservers work by the
author sending the listserver a copy of the message and then a file
containing a list of the recipients (so they are separate items) and
the listserver sends a copy of the mail to each recipient in that
file. The To, Cc, Bcc, and Subject headers are *optional* per RFC
2822; i.e., they may appear at a minimum of zero times or a maximum of
one time. They are NOT used to route the mail. They are *data* that
is within the body of the mail that gets sent during the DATA command,
so the sender can put whatever they want in those headers or not have
them at all.