I occasionally check my alumni email account at the U of S - they basically let you keep your email address from when you were in school. Anyway, it’s really just a big spam collector - of the hundreds of emails that I’ve gotten to that address since I re-activated it, only one has been non-spam, and it was a direct reply to an email that I sent from that account.

Well, today when I checked it, there were 165 emails waiting. Normally it collects a couple dozen in a week, so it was quite a haul. Most of them were very different than the usual spam though - they were bounces. Apparently some spammer sent out spam that claimed to come from my email address (grm129@mail.usask.ca) and a bunch of it bounced (unsurprisingly.) Normal spam, I don’t care too much about - I don’t get enough to really bother me too much. This kind of spam is terrible though. They’re not trying to sell me anything, they’re just pretending that I’m trying to sell other people things (you know, the kind of things that spammers try to sell…) I was so mad, I deleted them all right away. I instantly wished I’d kept some, so I could do some forensics on the headers, to find the source. They likely would have been long gone though, so there really wasn’t much point.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I’m interested in upgrading my twenty eight point eight kilobaud internet connection to a one point five megabit fibre-optic T-1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that’s compatable with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?” - Comic Book Guy