[This afternoon I received a spam with an odd address in the To: field. It had the same prefix (lvcm) as my ISP but had the .net suffix (instead of .com) I decided on a little experiment, sending a test message and received the following results. Does this look at all odd? steve]

Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@mt1.lvcm.net> To: <schear@lvcm.com> To: postmaster@mt1.lvcm.net Subject: Returned mail: Too many hops 26 (25 max): from <schear@lvcm.com> via 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net, to <User@mt1.lvcm.net> Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)

The original message was received at Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]

----- The following addresses had permanent delivery errors ----- <User@mt1.lvcm.net>

Reporting-MTA: dns; mt1.lvcm.net Received-From-MTA: DNS; 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net Arrival-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; User@mt1.lvcm.net Action: failed Status: 5.4.6 Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <<schear@lvcm.com>> Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT41223; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT35403; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT40924; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:20:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT34912; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT39692; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT34407; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT38471; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:12:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT33318; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:04:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT35863; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT33242; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT35764; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:04:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT33216; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:03:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT35731; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:03:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT31707; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:51:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT31709; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT29929; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:34:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT27287; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:34:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT29510; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:29:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT26160; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:29:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT27619; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:11:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT20725; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:11:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT26438; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:58:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT16715; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mt1.lvcm.net (mt1.lvcm.net [24.234.0.82]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AQT25337; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:50:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.16]) by mt1.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APT14228; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from solo.lvcm.com ([24.254.81.38]) by femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011030015050.YSHS2746.femail26.sdc1.sfba.home.com@solo.lvcm.com> for <User@mt1.lvcm.net>; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:50:50 -0800 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011029175313.03938278@pop3.lvcm.com> X-Sender: schear@pop3.lvcm.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:53:23 -0800 To: User@mt1.lvcm.net From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com> Subject: test Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed