Spammy!

[Belmit]

We got an irate member of staff going off on one about getting repeated spam messages in his inbox and asking what we were going to do about it.

A week ago he accidentally sent a badly programmed mail merge not only to the 500 people in the list, but 500 times. One of the addresses didn't exist.

Guess who was spamming him?! ;D

[Haly]

;D

[Dee]

You git ;D

[Garp]

*sigh*

Why is it so hard to read and understand the simple messages mail servers send back?

"No user known at this address" or similar is hardly complicated.

[Mark]

I get almost daily undelivered message reports from one particular email address. I've had so many in fact, that my email client now considers them spam and files them accordingly. Don't ask me why they're always the same - some spammer re-enacting Groundhog Day I suspect. :)

[Garp]

You'll probably find that the server is doing accept first, process later and thus is initially accepting e-mails that would otherwise be rejected, thus the spammer doesn't know its an invalid address and still attempts to send to it.