RE: [ST] Spam

["Mike Bostock" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In your message regarding RE: [ST] Spam dated Wed, 2 Jul 2003
10:18:16 -0700 , peter.chittum@xxxxxxxxxxxx said that ...

>p- This explains a lot. Sounds like it's not a spam problem, rather it's a
>p- virus problem. I've gotten two suspicious messages related to this virus. 

Not the one I received - it was from that wretched Casino online
gambling cartel.

>p- First was an auto-response from some other email address saying that I had
>p- sent them an address with a "suspicious" file. Second was an email from
>p- someone else, with the stated subject below. Fortunately, the antivirus
>p- software had scrubbed off the virus file prior to my reading it. 
>p- 
>p- It seems to me that someone from the list quite likely has a virus on their
>p- personal PC. A virus can quite easily sift through old messages and poach
>p- email addresses off of To: and From: lines of emails. 

That is possible as well - but my AV software on my Linux mailserver
would have gobbled that without me having to worry about pressing a
delete key.

- -- 
Mike Bostock
http://www.toothfairy.co.uk/
Wales & SW ST Riders
http://www.sprint-st.org/

'99 Red ST

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