[lug] email mystery

[Kirk Rafferty]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:59:46PM -0700, D. Stimits wrote:
> Thanks! I am going to see if I can get idcomm to look into this, I get a
> ton of junk that is in no way addressed to me. RSS seems like a good
> idea. I'm still confused as to how this could actually reach my
> particular account without it being addressed anywhere...seems like a
> bug being exploited.

Actually it's not nearly that diabolical.  You were a Bcc (Blind carbon)
recipient.  Because of that, you won't show up in the header.  You can
easily simulate this by sending an email to yourself as a Bcc recipient.

-k