someone is using my email address to spam, is there a way to stop this ?

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, James Knott wrote:

> Here's an article about the problem:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6752853.stm

"Operation Bot Roast".  Who ever came up with that deserves a prize :)

A lot of companies now block outbound SMTP from anywhere except their 
legitimate MTAs but the routers used by home users don't.

Cheers,

Rob

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