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Old August 28th 03, 02:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Ed Crowley Ed Crowley is offline
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"David Walters" wrote in message
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On 28 Aug 2003 13:31:13 GMT, Peter Wright wrote:
David Walters wrote in
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An example is at http://www.jellybaby.net/~david/tubespam.txt


LU have their own series of IP addresses, and this example did not
apparently originate from within that range.


LU might have their IP range on the end of a connection that isn't
fast enough to send the number of emails they want to send. It's
very likely that bandwidth to a co-located server is cheaper then
getting a fatter pipe to LU HQ.

Spolling mistooks are usually a good indication that an email is being
spoofed, the question is: why?


I don't think it's spoofed, just badly put together. Most mass
mailings are.


The email is from TfL. You (whoever was complaining in the first place)
probably forgot to tick a "don't spam me" checkbox when you bought a ticket
online or sent in a customer charter refund form.