Stop using Windows and such fears generally subside. On 7/1/03 8:11 AM, "Paulo Gaspar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Same here. (although I am glad I am not as popular as you! 300???!!!) > > I was getting afraid that some servers would just start blocking my > email from this address... but this got to such a dimension that I > am sure all sysadmins must know how it works by now. > > There was a time I thought I was really somehow infected, but I am > offline during weekends and I just get too much warnings from > antivirus email filters on Monday. > > So, people: just get your machine offline for a while if you use > Outlook and have this kind of doubt. > > > Have fun, > Paulo Gaspar > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: sexta-feira, 27 de Junho de 2003 17:48 >> To: Jakarta General List >> Subject: Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses >> >> >> That is exactly what happens with this particular worm. If your address >> is in the address book of someone who gets infected, not only do *you* >> start to receive the messages, messages with forged "from" headers with >> your name on them also go out. Then, the volume of messages is made worse >> by all of those "helpful" spam filters that catch the fact that the virus >> is included, and return a notification to the (forged) sender. >> >> Obscuring email addresses in the archives would have zero impact on this >> particular problem. >> >> Craig (just cleaned out about 300 of these from this morning's mail) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
