[1] The spam appears to be posted via googlegroups, so there is a good
chance the From: is not forged. Google groups makes you verify your
account with an email address.
[2] 197.168.125.24.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer c-24-125-168-
97.hsd1.va.comcast.net NOT vt.edu. So it was posted from a home computer
served by Comcast using a google groups account.
[3] Posted via google news (above)
(4) freepay.com claims to prohibit spamming of referral links.

Who to send spam complaints to:




- alledgedly they have a no-spam policy.


Path: pd7tw1no!pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!newscon02.news.prodigy.c om!
newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!border1.nnt p.dca.giganews.com!
nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!z14g2000cwz. googlegroups.com!not-
for-mail [3]
[1] From:
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: FREE VIDEO iPODS
Date: 24 Nov 2005 13:05:49 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 9
Message-ID: . com
[2] NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.125.168.197
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1132866354 14463 127.0.0.1 (24 Nov 2005
21:05:54 GMT)
X-Complaints-To:
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:05:54 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: G2/0.2
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1;
..NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
Complaints-To: [3]
[2] Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=
24.125.168.197; posting-account=izrfBg0AAAD-1kv88otyz9Ub-1oHl_cX
Xref: pd7hu0no rec.radio.shortwave:30399239
X-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:05:54 MST (pd7tw1no)