Charles and probably everyone who ever posted anything on IBM-MAIN "I heard it on the grapevine" that there is a risk when opening an e-mail which you suspect may not be pukka of suffering the fate of those who trusted in Greek gifts. As a consequence - and thanks for a warning I half-noticed scanning the posts using this new cursor-hover-browse function - I became suspicious of an e-mail ostensibly from John and adopted what I hope is a defensive technique for taking a look at such an e-mail.
Rather than *open* the e-mail I right-click and go to Properties-Detail and so on in order to look it over. My suspicions were then thoroughly aroused by the fact that I was presented with gobbledygook, continuous hex characters - with an intended double-entendre. As a matter of some interest, am I right with this defensive play? Chris Mason On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:14:46 -0400, Hardee, Charles H <[email protected]> wrote: >And, as the song goes... "And then you go and spoil it all by saying something >stupid like,". You can probably guess the rest of the new lyrics. >Yes, I just received the vacation spam email privately. Coincidence or what? > >Anyway, you wanted to know Shane. Good luck in figuring it out. > >Charles Hardee >CA technologies >Sr Sustaining Engineer >Tel: +1-952-838-1039 >[email protected] > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Hardee, Charles H >Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:06 AM >To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' >Subject: RE: A nice website,go it > >I received it thru the list. >Haven't received one privately, yet. > > >Charles Hardee >CA technologies >Sr Sustaining Engineer >Tel: +1-952-838-1039 >[email protected] > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Shane Ginnane >Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 5:11 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: A nice website,go it > >> Looks like someone has hacked into John's email system. > >Did anyone else get this as a privately addressed mail, or merely via the >list server ? Trying to work out if they got his contact list. >Header IP looks like China. > >Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
