I get it too, 3 to 5 a day. Not to my list subscription address but to my
work. I don't remember recently using that address for the list, but I did
before I got broadband, maybe 18 months ago. It's probably a coincidence.
The thing does bother me. I tried replying to the sender once and it failed,
but I get lots of opportunities so stay tuned. My company IS people are
supposedly looking into it. But they keep coming.
--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Christof Biebricher
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:46 AM
> To: Jean-Pierre Coulon
> Cc: TeX-Music
> Subject: Re: [TeX-music] Spams, viruses.
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
>
> > This message is directed to people whose name show up in a "mailto"
> > field in the Werner Icking Music Archive site, i.e. people who have
> > contributed something to this Archive.
> >
> > I am not aware of any mailing list directed to this specific group of
> > persons, so I apologize for bothering other people with this.
> >
> > I regulary receive the Snow White virus (about 3/week),
> > the virus that says "I send you this file in order to ... etc"
> (about 1/day),
> > and a variety of spams (about 1/day), some of them directed to sexual
> > topics.
> >
> > I am wondering if my address has been harvested on the site of
> our Archive.
> > For this reason, I am curious to know if the other contributors to this
> > Archive receive the same amount of nasty messages as I do.
> >
> I also get this virus, although even more frequently. Since I also
> frequent the choralist newsgroup and a specific warning came from
> that source, I assumed it came from that list. But you are right,
> this virus comes to specificly my address.
>
> I occasionally get spam; however, this is never directed to me directly
> but to the group members of the LAN. I assumed that somebody clicked on
> a wrong button.
> > In this case, I welcome some expert advice. But maybe all of you just
> > select "messages rules" with their mailers to automatically
> delete such messages, and otherwise elect to ignore them.
> > Otherwise is there any action possible ?
> Filters are the only solution. However, this is some work, because it is
> not so easy: the virus comes with different subject data.
> Since I work with Linux, there is no direct danger in my case.
>
> Christof
>
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