Hi, I received a lot of these emails too. But I also received something that worries me very much. I received several emails with delivery problems that had my email address as return address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] They often were reporting viruses too. But I did not send them any email, they are NOT in my addressbook, and I even don't use Outlook. So somebody somewhere uses my [EMAIL PROTECTED] as 'sent' or 'reply to' address.
Does anybody know how I could find out who does this? It causes me a lot of trouble. It may even be another company selling the same thing I do. I just have no idea who. Or is the maybe the virus software doing that? Any idea's somebody? All information is welcome. Kind regards, Pieter Hoeben Date sent: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:39:13 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L <CHIPDIR- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California > Hello everyone -- > > As you undoubtedly know, the Internet has been slammed this week and last week with mass mailings, intrusions, worms and viruses. More are on their way. Fat City has seen a huge increase in the number of spoofed messages coming into our systems. In fact, more than three times the normal load, and this could potentially cause some problems for all of our mailing lists. > > In order to mitigate this potential problem, I have decided to turn off many of the auto-repsonses that ListGuru sends. Because of the way viruses like SoBig and Klez spoof addresses, and because there are so many fatcity.com addresses in your address books and inboxes, this results in a large number of spoofed messages that ListGuru tries to reply to. Not only is that useless, but it's also annoying for those whose addresses have been spoofed. By shutting off those responses which aren't considered valid, this will reduce the amount of back and forth traffic between our servers and you. > > What this means to you is that unless you've sent a properly formatted request or command to ListGuru, you now will NOT get a response. If you are a subscriber to a list and you try to post, but your posting address has changed, you will NOT be told that your address needs changed. Etc. Instead, auto-responses like these will be thrown away and your messages, effectively, ignored. I know this sounds rather "rude" ;-), but I assure you, the intent is not to be rude at all -- it is to reduce the amount of E-mail traffic being sent to the net by these viruses. > > I apologize in advance if this causes any problems or confusion for anyone. If you have any questions or concerns about whether your mail was received okay here or your subscription is working, please contact me directly. I expect that these measures will be needed for the next few weeks, but after that I will return ListGuru's functionality to normal. Please bear with us during the intervening weeks. > > Thank you! > Bruce A. Bergman > ListMaster, Fat City Hosting > > -- > Author: Bruce A. Bergman > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > ====================================================== ========== > Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd op virussen. > Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ______________________________________________ Hoeben Electronics Phone: +31 6 51590081 Ronkert 44 Fax: +31 13 5096025 5094 EW Lage Mierde Private: +31 13 5096200 The Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hoeben.com ______________________________________________ -- Author: Pieter Hoeben INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
