On Wednesday 04 February 2004 13:32, robin wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Increasingly, members of this list are being accused of sending
> > virused emails.  I know that some of you have no choice but to
> > use windows for part of your life, but PLEASE, if you do, check
> > that you are clean.  Our addresses are being picked up from
> > somewhere, and more and more clues point to someone who uses
> > linux mailing lists. The warning I received this morning was from
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> It is not necessary to use Windows to have your address appear in
> the From header of a virus - all that is necessary is for your
> email address to be in the address book of someone who has an
> infected computer.  Same goes for spam - I've had mails ostensibly
> from myself offering the usual viagra, organ enlargement etc.
>
> Sir Robin

Agreed, Robin, but I ask myself who would have an addressbook with the 
names of a number of people from a linux mailing list?  It could be 
coincidence, but working on the principle that two is coincidence, 
three, just possibly, more than that - probably not....

Anne
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