I contacted Amazon about this and twice received form letters back claiming it was a virus spoofing their address. After assuring them that it wasn't a virus and pressing the issue, they finally seem to have gotten it to the right people to look at it. I received this email the other day: | Hello, | | Just a quick note to let you know I received a "trouble ticket" | from one of our people in HR letting me know of a problem with | the jobs@xxxxxxxxxx autoresponder. | | I'm going to look into this matter and escalate to our system | administrators as needed to see what we can do to prevent this | from happening any more. | | We'll do what we can to resolve this as soon as possible. Sorry | for any inconvenience this is causing you. | | -Dave | | ======================== | Dave Viebrock, Helpdesk | viebrock@xxxxxxxxxx I forwarded him a copy of the email I had received and the headers showing it coming from Amazon's mail servers. I believe it's from the PHP-Win mailing list specifically that we've been getting the emails, but maybe I just havn't posted on some of the others as much. At any rate, I think it's just someone who works in HR at Amazon or some other kind of auto-responder set up in their system that sends out a courtesy email saying "Thanks, we received your email and will get back to you shortly". If people keep getting messages from Amazon, you might want to contact the guy above and forward him your email headers. Be courteous though, this is likely a simple mistake and I'm guessing it's not "Dave's" fault. Try to work with him to solve the problem, don't just flame the poor guy. I havn't received anything from a Swiss bank, but any time you get something like this, try sending a message to "abuse@xxxxxxxxxxx" or "postmaster@.." or "admin@.." or something along those lines. Sysadmins don't want their users spamming the world and giving them a bad name, so go right to the top with your inquiry. :) -TG > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Pilborough [mailto:j_pilborough@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:40 AM > To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Strange e-mails > > > Has anybody else received strange e-mails after posting to the php > mailing lists? After every post I have made so far I have received an > e-mail within ten minutes of posting from amazon or a swiss bank > claiming I have contacted them. I have never done this and I do not > normally receive any spam or unsolicited e-mail. > > Regards, > Jonathan Pilborough -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
