full-disclosure - Strange Emails -- What are they?

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Message-ID: <4486DA15.5020804@csuohio.edu>
Date: Wed Jun  7 14:52:36 2006
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Strange Emails -- What are they?

> Is this just another instance of spammers fishing for legit addresses?
> If so, then why the hell are they sending email from invalid addresses?
> I can dig into this a lot further if I need to, but I wanted to see if
> anyone else had any ideas about it first.  Thanks in advance!!!

Yes (just spam -- address harvesting). There was some discussion about 
this exact issue yesterday over on UNISOG :

http://www.dshield.org/pipermail/unisog/2006-June/

/mike.