Re: My fault or just Spam

2004-02-19 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 21:08, Ed Budd wrote: It's a virus (my AV calls it Worm.Gibe.F). I bet most of the list gets these occasionally. Heh, yeah, I'm getting it 3 times a day at least. Same goes for the mydoom A variant. It's quite anoying to have your mailbox flooding with these

My fault or just Spam

2004-02-18 Thread luke
I've fairly recently setup a mail server to: 1) learn about email and server configurations and all that goes along with administrating it. 2) And being able to recieve loads of email from freebsd-questions without fear of restriction on any other account (i.e. loss of email that I want to

Re: My fault or just Spam

2004-02-18 Thread Aaron Peterson
unfortunately, it's likely it's your fault for using email, hehe... at least one of the recent windows viruses steals addresses from the address books of infected machines and sends out mail to/from those addresses. It's likely that someone that had your address in their address book was

Re: My fault or just Spam

2004-02-18 Thread Ed Budd
It's a virus (my AV calls it Worm.Gibe.F). I bet most of the list gets these occasionally. Some hapless windows user got infected and has you in their address book (perhaps through the outlook auto-add-addresses-to-addressbook-function applied to something you posted once on a public list??)

Re: My fault or just Spam

2004-02-18 Thread luke
unfortunately, it's likely it's your fault for using email, hehe... Damn this new fangled technology! If only this mailing list was backwards compatible with the USPS. :) at least one of the recent windows viruses steals addresses from the address books of infected machines and sends out

Re: My fault or just Spam

2004-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:29:03PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyhow, within the month that I've had my server running I've been recieving numerous emails that are obviously malicious to Windows users (i.e. contain an attachment with some random-letters.exe and nonsense about a patch).