On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Pteranodon wrote: > Seems Mr Bill B has changed the way ALL vortexians recieve their > web mail to the list. Not only is there a 'vo' tag in front of all the > posts to the list, but the headers of the files are lengthened as well > as well as re mails of your posts to AOL. All of them. All your posts > are now going to a secret box on AOL.
Hmmmmm, a subscriber with a concealed name? Making nasty accusations rather than simply posting the supposedly changed headers? Very suspicous. I wonder why he's doing this? Perhaps it's incompetence... or perhaps it's something MORE. So, "pteranodon," which part of the NSA do you work for? How long have they been paying you to spread distrust amongst the alt-science community? --- Heh. I'm trying to make a point in the above. "Conspiracy accusations" are dishonest and worthless techniques of persuasion used by ignorant people. They can be directed against ANYBODY, no evidence required. Is billb a government stooge? ...or maybe the people who ACCUSE billb of being a government stooge, THEY are the true government stooges. Seriously, in reading this guy's message, it looks like he may have become infected with spyware from one of those recent vortex-L spam messages about "buy medicine" or "woman wants man who is able." I didn't think any warning was necessary, but I guess I there are users here who haven't encountered forged-header spam or spyware infections before. So: If a vortex-L message seems to come from bill beaty, but the subject line is trying to sell you discount vitamins or "enlargement" pills, and the message contents are graphic files and mystery stuff, then you probably should assume that the message is spyware-infected spam, and should avoid clicking on any of the links. I've made a change which should prevent any further spams like those earlier ones. We'll see if it works. Those earlier ones were probably a fluke, since vortex-L gets about a hundred spams per day which are rejected as non-subscriber. Finally one of the forged headers happened to be a subscriber (me.) It could have been any of us, but my email address is all over the internet, so spammers would tend to steal it for forged-header use. > I did not subscribe to AO-Hell, and heartily object to all my Vortex > mail being sent there. Two possiblities: "pteranodon" has detected a genuine spyware infection in his system, and needs to run the Linus equivalent of Spybot-S&D or Spyware Doctor. Or perhaps he's just confused, and his accusations are conspiracy theory delusions. DID I SAY TWO? THREE POSSIBILITYS: he's being paid by Homeland Security to sow confusion, and billb is on the NSA payroll, and is under standing orders to make their competition on the Homeland Security staff look ridiculous in email forums by hacking into their systems and setting their system clocks to 2004! [1] Ahem. Now if anyone actually wanted to trace the problem (or even wanted to make a solid accusation of my own dark and evil nature) they could have just forwarded the "before" and "after" headers. Without them, nobody knows what the hell this whole thing is about. Let's see. Back before [EMAIL PROTECTED] requested the [Vo]: tag, there's a message from "pteranodon" dated June 3 [1] "Re: Where Protons Go". And there's this current one dated monday june 26. Both headers are 33 lines long. And if I load them into two pages in msWord and perform "blink comparison," I see only some differences in the date, subject, and various message-id lines. [1] Well actually pteranodon's own date is dec 26, 2004. Forgot to set the system clock? > One post from BillB sent later with only the subject line of 'vo' contained > a segment of 8 bit characters that I took to be either a virus or a silent > re-direct to a viral site. Was it from "Jerri?" That was in a cluster of three forged-header spam messages from "Al", "Jerri", and "Noelle". They contained jpegs which I've never examined. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74 206-543-6195 Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700
