It wasn't you.  Everyone on the list subscribed to untagged posts got it.

A spammer sent it with the piclist as the return address - it isn't
authorized to post messages o the list, though, but the error was still
posted.

I wonder about the application logic going on here... ;-)

-Adam

Kevin Blain wrote:

>Here's an interesting one. This is the second time this has happened to
>me. Does It happen to anyone else?
>
>Basically, I have a yahoo email account. However, I set my FROM address
>to be to my own domain, rather than @yahoo. Thus whenever I send emails
>from outlook to PIClist, the server sees my domain as the sender, even
>though it was via yahoo's amtp server. Gottit so far?
>
>If I were to ever send an email with the from as my @yahoo address, the
>PICList server would complain, as it doesn't recognise the address.
>
>So. Given that I receive the following email (important snippets
>retained) someone is sending emails to whoever they fancy ( in this case
>to the piclist) pretending to be me!!!
>
>Regards, Kevin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pic microcontroller discussion list
>[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of L-Soft list server at
>MITVMA.MIT.EDU (1.8d)
>Sent: 29 July 2002 10:26
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Rejected posting to PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>
>
>You  are  not   authorized  to  send  mail  to  the   PICLIST  list
>from  your
>PIC@MITVMA.MIT.EDU account.  You might be authorized  to send to the
>list from another of  your accounts,  or perhaps  when using  another
>mail  program which generates slightly  different addresses, <snip>blah
>blah blah.....</snip>
>------------------------ Rejected message (45 lines)
>--------------------------
>Return-Path: <pic@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail
>V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 5858 for <pic@MITVMA>; Mon, 29 Jul 2002
>05:24:44 -0400
>Received: from *unknown [193.192.101.135] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP
>Level 320) via TCP with SMTP ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:24:42 EDT
>X-Warning: mitvma.mit.edu: Host *unknown claimed to be yahoo.com
>From: pic@mitvma.mit.edu
>Received: from yahoo.com by 8ROI5.yahoo.com with SMTP for
>pic@mitvma.mit.edu; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:31:11 -0500
>To: pic@mitvma.mit.edu
>Reply-To: pic@mitvma.mit.edu
>X-Priority: 3
>Subject: Lowest Mortgage Rates Around
>Message-Id: <0H6I6I8ILA5J.7OEGDHQBG13O7JG6VK71.pic@mitvma.mit.edu>
>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>X-Encoding: MIME
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:31:11 -0500
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>Content-Transfer-Encoding:  quoted-printable
>
>We will help you get the mortgage loan you want!
>
><snip>blah blah hlan </snip>
>
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>from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts
>http://uk.my.yahoo.com
>
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