Regarding my forwarding of what appeared to be a "slow down"
request from the US IRS, someone replied:
You did not include the headers from the original message.
What is the email address of this "IRS autoresponder?"
Remember that I said Forwarded. If the original headers had been there
(they weren't), and if I had quoted them, it would have been a third-hand
report of what could have been a forgery.
Where did you get this message? From "what" other list?
From the list whose FAQ is at http://www.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l
It smells like hoax to us, and so far, you are the one spreading it.
Who is "us" besides the _one_ who wrote the above? It smelled like hoax
to me that "all spams should be forwarded to
xxxxx(_at_)xxx(_dot_)xxx(_dot_)irs(_dot_)gov" and
this seems to suggest that my suspicions were justified.
No doubt you have already read on _this_ list messages from other than me
suggesting this latest may not be a hoax.
I forwarded it to this list only because it alleged a counter-productive
use of procmail.