Watch out! was: Re: Very Wierd someone is masquarading as the mail list?

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Mon Dec 20 16:00:26 1999

>Note the msg subject was not what Zane reported.
>
>Okay Bruce and others, it seems somebody may have been either lurking on the
>list and harvesting email addresses or broken into u.washington.edu's server
>and spoofed their server into the classiccmp list.
>
>The same problem has been happening with another list I'm a member of. A
>leadoff message in a thread discussing it is copied below and can fill you in
>some info already known of this:

I think the problem is that someone has an infected PC and whenever they
read a message from one of us, we promptly get that reply.

What can I say? Eudora, Mac's, Linux, or other non-Windows OS's are your
friends :^) Guess we should be glad there aren't a *lot* of people running
MS Outlook on this list!

                                Zane
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Received on Mon Dec 20 1999 - 16:00:26 GMT

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