Kai MacTane writes:
> Text written by John Conover at 05:48 PM 3/30/99 -0000:
>
> >BTW, I put the address of the sender of the attachment in the warning,
> >since procmail's formail will extract such stuff, and a statement that
> >if you don't know this person, don't click.
>
> But part of the point (and the evil) of Melissa is that you *do* know the
> person. It sends itself to folks that it finds at the top of someone's
> Outlook address book -- presumably, folks they correspond with on some
> basis or another.
>
Some of them don't, and it does mean, that no matter what, or how the
PC is configured, it won't extract the attachment automatically. It
requires intervention, after reading a message.
John
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