"Jeffrey A. Greenough" wrote:
>
> Did anyone else receive an email from a joanne somebody or other? I got
> one that said it was a e-greeting card. I thought it was for my
> daughter, but as it started to load, I noticed it had the linux-laptop
> address in it and something sex related. I killed it and scanned my
> system for viruses. Did a subscriber's account get hacked or did the
> news-list get hacked, or was it just me?
>
> jeff
It's just spam. Check http://www.orbs.org/ for info on the Greeting Card
Spam stuff.
Someone probably posted to a newsgroup and this list at the same time.
The address was added to a spam list and now the list gets spam. The
only way to stop it is to make this a closed list where you must
subscribe in order to post to it.
