On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:27, Frankie wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Margot > >Sent: Monday, 1 September 2003 5:49 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed! > > > >I know what you mean - it just makes me so angry. My godmother is 76 and > >is a writer and teacher. She mainly uses her computer as a glorified > >typewriter, but uses email occsionally to communicate with friends who > >live abroad. I made sure she has antivirus and firewall running, but she > >is still scared to check her email unless I'm there with her. So far, no > >viruses, but increasing amounts of spam, mainly offering her access to > >porn sites - in Italian! She teaches Spanish, and I don't speak either > >Italian or Spanish, so when these messages started arriving I naturally > >assumed they were from Spanish friends - until she pointed out that they > >weren't Spanish,certainly weren't from friends, and roughly translated > >them for me! I've set up filters to try to prevent them, but they keep > >getting through by using different email addresses. Isn't the internet > >wonderful? > > > >Margot > > > FRANKI: > > The internet is wonderful... its just evolving abit now, spamassasin or > some other variant has become a necessity nowdays and pretty soon all ISP's > will run some form of email virus scanning like many of us do on our own > mail servers. I think whitelist service should and will be added to every non-M$ mail client within the next year or so, only allowing mail from those who's email addresses you know are real, or are real people, to be transfered even as far as the pop server.
seems like a service worth running, even, the web server end to verify the e-mailer is a person. > The internet is such a wonderful source of resources. I couldn't handle my > work without it now. I still think the only ones (besides p0rnographers) that really 'make the Internet work for them' are still computer professionals. without it for a source of drivers and other people with the same headaches in hardware and code, but as the 'brick and mortar' start to use it more and more, they will begin to catch on, and they have just barely gotten beyond the 'brochure' stage, into if you make an analogy to other media, the magazine stage, and when they get to to the 'epic tome' level, shit like M$ virus transport agents will be a foot note. if the choice you make is to only have 4 letters in your alphabet to make it easier to use, (like winblows is crippled to make it easier to use) you soon have to realize the folks on the other side of the river with 20 letters have an easier time figuring out what each others messages mean. > Its the a$$holes that try to turn it into a cash cow by spamming anyone > that can find, or the losers that think its cool to write virus's (sorta > like the losers that graffiti walls). I sure do agree with that analogy, and consider it the same 'mindset'. > Finially the losers like M$ that make > software that just lends itself to the cause of any miscreant that has a > need to spread misery. :-) like M$ is building walls that _beg_ to be be painted with graffiti, and hiding cans of spray paint in the corner,in case M$ ever wants to paint the wall. When it could just as well build walls where the graffiti washed right off, or did not stick at all. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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