Dear spammers who are using one of my email addresses as an apparently from:

[msagara]

Please die horribly and also quickly.

ETA: After cleaning out one hundred and fifty bounces, with no doubt more to come, I will settle for horribly.

Comments

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

You, too, huh? Horribly would be too good for them, IMO.

And people wonder why I get paranoid when I don't hear back from editors for a while. I've actually had three spam e-mails today from my own e-mail address.

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

I'm also designing a special hell for stupid system administrators who bounce to forged 'From' addresses instead of checking 'Received' headers. Their laziness just magnifies the problem and dumps garbage on people who had no part in creating it.

[sphericaltime.livejournal.com]

I saw you post on Scalzi's blog, and I was going to try to exhort an update from you. Nice to see that you're alive. If another of my favorite writers were to die after James Rigney, I don't know what I would do.

[moskevyu.livejournal.com]

Aargh. Something similar happened to me on Hotmail about a year ago. Admins suspended my account because I had so many bounces clogging up their bandwidth. I ended up leaving and setting up an account with a private email provider.

I'm sorry this is going on.