Nothing that I know of.  If you could actually get copies of some of the
spam, there is some slight chance of getting it blocked nearer the
source -- but that may be somebody's compromised machine and not really
tell you who is getting paid to send it.  And of course, having these
messages come to you means the spammer never has to deal with them,
sothey have no incentive to stop....

  The FTC, law enforcement, etc, have had some successes shutting down
botnets and spammer ISPs, but the problem is unlikely to go away anytime
soon.  They'll probably move on to someone else within a few months, but
that may be the best you can realistically hope for.

David Gillett

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] email returns
From: Ron Jobe <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 1:59 pm
To: [log in to unmask]

David,
What can the normal person do to stop or prevent these messages from
being
sent in the first place?
Ron Jobe

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:39 AM, David Gillett
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> You may be the victim of a "joe job", where some spammer is forging
> youe email address as the source of their messages. There's a good
> chance that the true source of the messages could be deduced from the
> message headers, but you probably don't have those, and the mail server
> programming that generates thes warning messages dates back tio an era
> when people assumed the From: address on messages could generally be
> trusted.
>
> There's not much you can do about these except filter them for
> deletion. That's a little risky, because you *may* occasionally get a
> legitimate notification arising from a message you really sent -- but
> that's probably pretty rare any more.
>
> David Gillett
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PCSOFT] email returns
> From: Gerry <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, May 23, 2010 7:14 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Everyday for about the past month I get 20 - 25 or these emails,
> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
>
> Delivery to the following recipients is still underway after 49.7
> hour(s):
>
> * [log in to unmask]
>
> Will keep trying and contact you if the message can't be delivered
> permanently.
>
> Each one has a different @.com. I don't know what to do to get rid of
> them.
>
> Can someone give me some advice about this. Most of them automatically
> go into my deleted folder but why would I be getting them to begin with.
>
>
> Would appreciate any help with this problem.
>
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