The important thing is, did you have a good time.
At 03:29 PM 9/21/03 +0100, you wrote:
On 21/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
Last year I sent one Nigerian on a wild goose chase to an hotel by the
airport to meet my 'uncle' who was visiting Lagos on business. The idiot
went there and knocked
Newsgroups
Steve Larson wrote:
I don`t think I use usenet either. OK, what is usenet?
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Good point. Stenquist is not a common name. Less than 50 in the US last
time I checked. I do have my address on some websites, but I don't use
30,000 or so. Not all sites have all of them though.
Usenet antidates the Internet by quite a few years. It pretty much
started out with university servers and expanded to almost everywhere.
They used UUCP (Unix to Unix Copy) to send the messages from server to
server. Servers would
This one time, at band camp, J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
me too, hundreds of them with attachments to make
things worse. I doubt that they are legit and
didnt try running any of the fixes.
JCO
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from Microsoft? I
have had 12
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from Microsoft?
It's not spam and it's not actually from Microsoft. It's
the latest mail-worm that's going around. I think the
various infected machines have been mailing each other
counterclockwise around the net and that's the real
-Original Message-
From: Doug Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 1:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT Lots of Nasty Spam
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:30:58 -0400, graywolf
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from Microsoft? I
have had 12 today, all different. Mozilla Thunderbird is doing a nice
job of filtering them. I am liking this software better and better.
--
graywolf
http://graywolfphoto.com
Not sure about the Microsoft part, but for
JCO wrote:
I think I coined a new computer phrase via a typo.
when you get a virus email w/ attachment it's not
an attachment, it's an attacKment...
Into the quote-of-the-day file with you then.
(Posted daily around 5:25 AM to http://www.livejournal.com/users/dglenn)
21, 2003 1:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT Lots of Nasty Spam
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:30:58 -0400, graywolf wrote:
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from Microsoft? I
have had 12 today, all different. Mozilla Thunderbird is doing a nice
job of filtering them. I am
På søndag, 21. september 2003, kl. 08:12, skrev D. Glenn Arthur Jr.:
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from Microsoft?
It's not spam and it's not actually from Microsoft. It's
the latest mail-worm that's going around. I think the
various infected machines have been mailing
I usually get over 300/day!
Having a Mac, I don't worry about being infected, but the volume of
email is almost overwhelming.
I use Netscape Communicator 4.79, and while the filters are okay, not
all of them end up in the trash folder, but in my inbox.
I know Mozilla is taking over from the
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/release-notes.html
Keith Whaley wrote:
I usually get over 300/day!
Having a Mac, I don't worry about being infected, but the volume of
email is almost overwhelming.
I use Netscape Communicator 4.79, and while the filters are okay, not
all of them end
I don't get any spam on my home computer. Zip, zero, none. I'm on a
compuserve.net cable modem with no other ISP. Perhaps Compuserve filters
well. At work I get a few spams for prescription medications but that's
about it. Since both of my systmes are Macs it isn't real important, but
I'm pleased
You also probably don't do usenet. Seems that is where most of the
spammers get their addresses from.
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I don't get any spam on my home computer. Zip, zero, none. I'm on a
compuserve.net cable modem with no other ISP. Perhaps Compuserve filters
well. At work I get a few spams
Good point. Stenquist is not a common name. Less than 50 in the US last
time I checked. I do have my address on some websites, but I don't use
usenet. In fact, I don't even know what usenet might be :-).
Mark Roberts wrote:
.
Some spam comes from dictionary attacks: The spammer uses software
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Good point. Stenquist is not a common name. Less than 50 in the US last
time I checked. I do have my address on some websites, but I don't use
usenet. In fact, I don't even know what usenet might be :-).
Heck, I don't, either!
But, I'm pretty sure SOME of the
I don`t think I use usenet either. OK, what is usenet?
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Good point. Stenquist is not a common name. Less than 50 in the US last
time I checked. I do have my address on some websites, but I don't use
usenet. In fact, I don't even
Lots of Nasty Spam
Good point. Stenquist is not a common name. Less than 50 in the US last
time I checked. I do have my address on some websites, but I don't use
usenet. In fact, I don't even know what usenet might be :-).
Mark Roberts wrote:
.
Some spam comes from dictionary attacks
I don`t think I use usenet either. OK, what is usenet?
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
One can put spam blockers in one email address when using usenet. There are
way to avoid spam when using usenet.
Most of the spam I get on AOL is just directed to AOL members.
People new to the Net
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT Lots of Nasty Spam
I don`t think I use usenet either. OK, what is usenet?
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Good point. Stenquist is not a common name. Less than 50
, 2003 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: OT Lots of Nasty Spam
I don`t think I use usenet either. OK, what is usenet?
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
One can put spam blockers in one email address when using usenet. There
are
way to avoid spam when using usenet.
Most of the spam I get on AOL
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: OT Lots of Nasty Spam
People new to the Net just know pretty much about webpages, someone can
fill
you in on usenet better than I regarding how long it's been
Yes, I think the attachments are viruses or something, at least I hope
so; I've been saving them for my collection.
Another joy of Macs: virus collections!
C
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 11:50 PM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 11:50 PM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another triumph for MS software
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32925.html
Oh, goody! A worm collection!
C
I usually tell them I'm sending them a cheque for $80,000,000.00, and
include a smattering of viruses disguised as pictures of my vacation.
C.
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 05:51 AM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am happy to report that after getting a few about a month ago I
haven't
had
Thanks Doe. I have a recollection of it now, my neighbor used them,
and I think I had a program that did it. It`s kind of like a DOS prompt
newsgroup, eh?
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
Sort of. All text, anyway. Most newsgroups don't allow attachments, a few do,
but not many. But
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Doe. I have a recollection of it now, my neighbor used them,
and I think I had a program that did it. It`s kind of like a DOS
prompt newsgroup, eh?
Sort of. All text, anyway. Most newsgroups don't allow attachments, a few do,
but not
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from Microsoft? I
have had 12 today, all different. Mozilla Thunderbird is doing a nice
job of filtering them. I am liking this software better and better.
--
graywolf
http://graywolfphoto.com
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:30:58 -0400, graywolf wrote:
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from Microsoft? I
have had 12 today, all different. Mozilla Thunderbird is doing a nice
job of filtering them. I am liking this software better and better.
There's a new worm running
-Original Message-
From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 1:31 AM
To: Pentax Discussion Malling List
Subject: OT Lots of Nasty Spam
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail
Yes, very high rate for two days now. Lots of virus activity early
today. Both seem to have subsided for now.
Otis
graywolf wrote:
Has anyone else been inundated by e-mail purportedly from Microsoft? I
have had 12 today, all different. Mozilla Thunderbird is doing a nice
job of
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