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Joe job.

It seems that some criminal is using my e-mail address, roessler@does-not-exist.org, as a sender address for (so far) body-part enlargement spam; typically, my address shows up both as the envelope sender, and in the From header of the messages in question. I'm, of course, not involved with that -- I'm just getting the bounces.

Things are, so far, on a much smaller scale than what happened to others, but it's still annoying. I'm not planning to change either my domain name, or my e-mail address; bounce messages that were not generated in response to messages I sent are discarded automatically.

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