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Homo Fish

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Mar 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/20/00
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I've received emails from companies. They seem to send the mails to a large
group of people. But when I see the header of the mails, they all shown
something like 'suppressed mailing list' in the 'to' field. Wonder how
they do this?? I thought when I send out mails to a group of people, all
receipients will be able to see others' names?

Some mails even have only my address in the 'to' field. but i think they
are sending to large group of peole...

Appreciate any help any enlightenment... :)

from this fish

winghoe

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Mar 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/20/00
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Forward that email to myc...@mycert.mimos.my, ab...@tm.net.my, and also
ab...@jaring.my. Tell them that these companies are spamming your account
with junk/bulk email. Make sure you include the full header...

I did this once..mimos replied to me...they managed to trace the
intermediate ISPs that the email passed thru. Also, they found the uplink
ISP. Mimos sent request to that ISP so that they can take action against the
company, and also forwarded the request to me...as to prove that they're
doing things..
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Best Regards,
winghoe
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Email: win...@hotmail.com
Note:
Reply using this email address.
I've had enough with spammers.
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Homo Fish <ric...@tm.net.my> wrote in message
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HammerNg

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Mar 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/20/00
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In SMTP protocol, you can actually put anything in the TO
field, which means it can be anything. The same applies
for the FROM field, while most of the spammers give a lot
of troubles and confusion using this method.

Regards,
HammerNg.

Homo Fish

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Mar 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/20/00
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But then how do we send to a group of people if we put only one email
address?


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Homo Fish

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Mar 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/20/00
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Yes thank you.

but what I want to know is how they do that. the emails I received are not
necessarily from spammers. eg. I received regular update from Microsoft
Technet but I notice that there is only my email address in the 'to' field.
then how do they send to so many people at one time?


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ignoramus

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Mar 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/20/00
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:53:51 +0800, "Homo Fish" <ric...@tm.net.my>
wrote:

>Yes thank you.
>
>but what I want to know is how they do that. the emails I received are not
>necessarily from spammers. eg. I received regular update from Microsoft
>Technet but I notice that there is only my email address in the 'to' field.
>then how do they send to so many people at one time?
>
>

They send one by one(?) Each individual e-mail would after all entail
a connection to each of the respective receivers' mail exchange
server.

ignoramus

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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:52:32 +0800, "Homo Fish" <ric...@tm.net.my>
wrote:

>But then how do we send to a group of people if we put only one email
>address?

BCC?


winghoe

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Mar 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/20/00
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Perhaps the mailing list program that they have can automate such procedure.
A theory, for example, set the program to read an email address from the
database, paste it to the to: field, insert the subject and article into the
subject and also body area, send it out.


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Best Regards,
winghoe
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Email: win...@hotmail.com
Note:
Reply using this email address.
I've had enough with spammers.
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HammerNg

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Mar 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/21/00
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> But then how do we send to a group of people if we put only one email
> address?

Like I said, you can put anything in the TO field,
so actually you still need to specify those email
addresses you want to send to, but not in the TO
field as what you always did in Outlook Express,
or popular email clients.

Try to refer to some groupwares (especially those
allow you to send mails to a bunch of people one
shot). I used to use one, but I forgot the name
already since long time I didn't touch this type
of things.

A search in www.winfiles.com or
http://tucows.joc.com.my will probably get you
to those files.

Regards,
HammerNg.

Homo Fish

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Mar 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/21/00
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Then why everytime my address is in 'to' field? * everytime * they send out
mails they 'to' me and 'bcc' others?

>
>BCC?
>

ignoramus

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Mar 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/21/00
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:03:15 +0800, "Homo Fish" <ric...@tm.net.my>
wrote:

>Then why everytime my address is in 'to' field? * everytime * they send out


>mails they 'to' me and 'bcc' others?
>
>>
>>BCC?
>>
>
>

I saw HammerNg's explanation.

If you look at the smtp protocol, you will find that the To: field in
the e-mail headers can be anything; it doesn't need to be the actual
destination e-mail address. It's the RCPT command that identifies the
recipient.

You can get more info from :-

http://sifu.rindu.net/course/one/freesoft/CIE/RFC/821/4.htm

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