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

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon Dec 20 17:16:55 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!


Well, I'm not a WinFanatic, and I will wash my mouth afterwards, but
that's not a windows problem - I'm running NT 3.51 (I have to) and I
have no problem to avoide unusefull programms.

Gruss
H.
BTW: isn't there an Outlook version for the Mac :))

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H.Achternbusch
Received on Mon Dec 20 1999 - 17:16:55 GMT

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