Apologies, I know this is off-topic, but since this list is the home
of some of the most clueful folk on the planet regarding E-mail ...

I have discovered to my great mortification this morning that my home
E-mail address (not this one) is apparently being forged as the From:
on spam. The offending server seems to be 211.96.97.10, which is
evidently a machine in China, as reported by whois.apnic.net. Of
course everyone knows that E-mail can be forged so that the From:
says anything you want it to. I don't see that I have any recourse
in this situation, but it sure is vexing. My system at home is
getting postmaster notifications of bounces. I think these are
genuine but am not sure. My concern is that some of the people
receiving this spam will not understand that my address has been
forged. This sort of thing could lead to my E-mail address being
blacklisted, which would be no fun at all.

What should I do about it? What *can* I do about it? Anything at
all?

The offending mail server appears to be running Microsoft Exchange --
it announces itself as

Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.2966

I think this machine is an open relay, but am not sure. I tried
using it to relay mail to myself and it seemed to accept the mail,
but I haven't gotten it yet, so maybe they are not an open relay.

Any advice is welcome. What would you do if this was *your* E-mail
address??
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