Hello Webmaster,

Monday, January 08, 2001, 4:25:52 PM, Webmaster <Chicago Webs> wrote:

> ???

> Please explain, did you get an email ( spam ) from a chicagowebs.com
> account? If so, please send the entire email with headers.

The problem is that all of us are on a mailing list at Bestclix.

This mailing list is not protected as it should be, to only allow
Bestclix to send emails to the entire list.  Instead, anyone sending
email to the list address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gets sent to all of us.

I'm emailing the site admin about it, in the meantime, the best thing
we can all do to stop these emails is to STOP responding to the
messages until the admin can fix their mailing list configuration.

A number of copies of the Snow White message that contains a virus are
being sent to this list as well.  Everyone getting this message should
make sure they are running virus protection software, and if you aren't
you should get some quickly from http://www.symantec.com/ because you
may be one of the 4-5 people who have unknowingly been the source of
these virus messages.  These people don't even know they are sending
them out, and think that because they didn't send a message to the
list knowingly that they can't be infected.  Surprise Surprise, some
of them are.

So in the meantime, you can check the headers, and if the headers show
Bestclix.net, you can assume that the message is another message being
sent through this list, and ignore it.   You can also email the
Bestclix.net people and get them to fix this unsecured list.

But the more people who respond, the more volume of email ALL of us
have to deal with.

Apologies for sending this one out, but someone had to explain to
everyone what is going on here.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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