Re: How is the list?

A few things that are very important to know about this new virus
include:

1. It only propogates itself.
2. It picks up addresses from the victim's address book.

and, most importantly,

3. It hides its origin by having the FROM field filled randomly from
other addresses in the address book.

So you could be getting a ton of e-mails about a virus you sent...that
you didn't send. You were just in someone's address book who did get
the virus. There's nothing I can think of to do about this but set
message filters to redirect these messages into a JUNK folder or
something like that.

Jim

PS So far as I can tell, this list has been working fine...posts have
dropped off a bit the last few hours, but they tend to do that
sometimes.

Tim O'Connor wrote:

> Hi, everyone. A couple of people have said they are not
> receiving their usual volume of list mail. As you all likely
> know, there's a huge Internet worm that is on the loose,
> disrupting traffic all over. That might account for the delay.
> But please let me know if you are not seeing your usual traffic.
>
> A couple of subscribers are having their mail bounced back to
> me, presumably because their networks are not doing too well.
> Those people won't see this message. But anyone else, please
> let me know if you think you are missing mail.
>
> I will be out of the reach of mail for about a day, so don't be
> alarmed if you write and don't get an answer. I should be back
> in business Sunday.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --tim
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Received on Sat Aug 23 12:55:36 2003