Sorry, it's no hijacking, it's probably the Mydoom virus, which is using
amongst about every other domain on the internet also the europa club
domain name in it's falsified return adress. There is no danger of
hijacking, and an investigation of the header details will show that the
origin of these messages is not from the europaclub servers. It is also
very unlikely that these messages with falsified return adresses will ever
arrive in europaclub members mailboxes.
But since the pre @ part of the email adress is randomly created, it
produces a lot of double bounces, finally ending up at the postmasters
desk of the domain.
Jos Okhuijsen Kit #600 2nd flap started, workshop almost live at
www.okhuijsen.org/plane
>
> I have recently become aware that spammers have started to highjack
> the <europaclub.org.uk> domain for sending junk mail.
>
> My apologies to anyone who has been troubled by receiving any such
> messages. I am not sure that we will be able to take effective action
> to stop this abuse, but as far as it is possible, we will be
> attempting to ensure that our domain is not blacklisted by
> spamblocking agencies.
>
> The main use of the addresses (such as <memsec@europaclub.org.uk>) is
> to allow mail to be sent Europa Club Committee members without
> knowing who is in post at any particular time. It would be unusual
> for mail to come to members or enquirers FROM one of those addresses;
> Committee members will normally reply to incoming mail using their
> normal private e-mail accounts.
>
> So, if you receive a message from <steve@europaclub.org.uk> or
> <george@europaclub.org.uk> or some similarly-formed address with a
> personal name at the front instead of a job function such as chair,
> editor, secretary, etc, you can be fairly sure it's spam.
>
> Apologies again!
>
> regards
>
> Rowland
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