I  have 1 to 5 SirCam mails a day + spam mails

I feel better now, knowing that i am not alone

Andre

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "TeX-Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 7:59 AM
Subject: RE: [TeX-music] Spams, viruses.


> 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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