V sml wrote:
>
> > I've received 3 copies already in three days....
>
> Is it possible that they are from 3 mailing list that you subscribed
> to, not 3 same message over the same mailing list?
>
> Let give this guy a chance, if we can't offer any encouragement.
> After all, his product is quite relevant to embedded system engineers.
>
> Ling SM

I would definitely say, NOT, from the headers I saw in the one piece of
mail that was forwarded to me.  The headers ALWAYS tell you where a
message came from (Rocketmail in this case), and ALWAYS tell you that a
list processor has handled the messages;  Your message's headers, for
example, are shown below (You think MPASM or C are hard to learn to
read?  <G>)  These headers show that you posted from
as604315.singnet.com.sg [165.21.205.25], that post went to the PICList
List Server, then to my ISP, not directly from sender to him.  The other
5 could have been the same or different, but where one went directly,
probably the others did the same.  Could be a "revenge" spam, of course,
or someone misled by a SpamWare seller, but the senders' machine
addressed it, not a list server, is what I'd read there.

The headers in question came straight from (Rocketmail to) Yahoo to the
recipient, no list server processing, no nothing.  Direct Commercial
e-mail, period.  I'd say Unsolicited, myself.

I'm not as expert as some in header reading, but I do know what I know
about headers! <G>

  Mark

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