Susan deftly typed-- >Dear Emailer talk list members, > >Is anyone else receiving messages as a result of the recent virus? Of course; anyone who has a 'Net connection, has posted an email address, or has their email address in someone else's address book is likely getting this rubbish.
>I >have just been deleting the emails along with the attachments, but wonder >if my address has been taken from the Add books of others and then used >to send emails to others? Most likely. >I guess there is nothing we can do about that, >right? We are just at the mercy of those who have our addresses in their >address books, I guess. True, again. > >The interesting thing is that I have received more "bogus" email with >".pif" attachments on my mac.com email (through ISP Earthlink) address >than I have on my AOL address. Is AOL able to filter the virus emails >somehow? Just Curious. I've deleted my logs from last week, but IIRC, I received few 'sobig' messages from my .mac account, as I've only shared this account with immediate family. OTOH, I couldn't connect via [EMAIL PROTECTED] to AOL last week, either Wed. or Thur. Logs showed AOL system too busy. Try again in 15 minutes. So my guess is AOL was either so overwhelmed by the virus that many users couldn't log on and thus couldn't receive the virus through their AOL account or the sysadmins. deliberately restricted the number of users. FYI, I got a couple of sobig viri last night; one to my main business email address, the other to my corporate address posted on my web set. Cheers. bevon > >Susan, Overland Park, Kansas ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
