Re: Attention everyone *ELSE* on the list....

[Christopher Hickman]

Please let Bill's reply stand alone.  There's no need to turn this into 
an OS flame war.  We can all *silently* feel sorry for Jacob and his 
situation.  The poor guy was in desperation, I'm sure, and he can 
hardly be blamed for freaking out...

Now, let's all just agree to let it be.

Topher

On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 02:35  PM, Bill Cassady wrote:

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Subject: Attention everyone on the list....
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from text/html by demime 0.99d.1
   Hello List,

      I  would  just  like to take a minute to alert everyone to an 
issue
   I've  noticed.   Somebody who is a member of the list has a virus 
or a
   worm.
Jacob-

You want to alert *everyone* ?

Please realize that not everyone on the list is susceptible to the
Microsoft viruses and worms presently circulating, and those that are
susceptible are in no better position to do anything about it, knowing
or not knowing that *someone* has an infection.
Furthermore, whatever Microsoft infections are spreading these days,
they are NOT spreading through this particular list, since it strips
all attachments, and even renders html submissions harmless by
converting them to plain-text. See, for instance, the X-Converted
header on your own message (above).
In the past two days I have received 40 or 50 crap emails with
   nasty  things  attached.   Lucky for me our Symantec Email gateway 
has
   politely removed the nasties.
My sympathies. But none of these originated from this list.

This is not to say that the virus did not get your e-mail address from
list  messages stored on your computer if you have posted to this
list. But that would be *YOUR* problem, created by your choice to run
Microsoft.
   My  suggestion  to everybody would to be polite and do a virus 
scan on
   your local pc.

   Jacob Hoover
My suggestion to you, if you are sufficiently annoyed by these
problems, is to connect to Internet with a more sturdy operating
system.
-Bill

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