Steven Pierce wrote:
>Who ever is sending this message can we please STOP. There is nothing in
it. >There is no subject and it is just taking up space on mail servers.
Could it be a mechanical malfunction somewhere?
Since three of the first 20 "empty" messages (with a blank subject
line) that were sent to the List today appear come from me -- and I *didn't
send them* -- I presume that the dozen-odd List regulars who were also
listed as the source for the rest of these trash-mailings were also victims.
I'll leave it to the List Admin (or someone more skilled at reading
the extended headers than I) to explain what has been happening here.
From what I see, it appears that the only content in these messages
is the extended Header info from various posts to Firewalls and
Firewall-wizards that date from January 7 and 8.
It could be some sort of mobile malevolent code, I suppose. A
purely "mechanical" software malfunction that sends out messages, dated
today, which appear to come from various subscriber accounts -- with forged
mail headers -- seems to be unlikely.
(My machine was connected to the net but unattended at the hour the
three notes that seemed to come from my machine at time-stamped. On my
local machine, however, I find no record of any outbound messages.)
Highlights those thought-provoking questions about e-mail as
evidence, even for internal corporate policy-enforcement, doesn't it?
_Vin
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"Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for
good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which
by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others
who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege."
_A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm
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