On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just talked with our Red Hat sysadmins about this email as I just spotted it here on the list. I figured some people would likely be annoyed by it, and that it is likely some virus or somesuch that triggered this.
I am told that someone must have both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in their email address book, and have gotten one of the newer Windows email viruses which sends a message to one address from your address book with another address from your address book in the header. If an autoresponder is at the end of the To: address, in this case "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", then the autoresponder will respond as it has no idea what is sending email to it, or any way of determining the legitimacy of the email. In this case, our [EMAIL PROTECTED] autoresponder has replied with a form letter to the address on the From: line, which was [EMAIL PROTECTED], and since this list is open posting, and not subscriber-only, the message was accepted. It's unfortunate that all of the garbage spam email, and email viruses out there are clogging our inboxes more and more every day, and removing some of the usefulness that we get from these forms of communication. The address [EMAIL PROTECTED] can safely be blocked from posting to this list if the list maintainer wishes, as there is no legitimate reason that [EMAIL PROTECTED] autoresponder would or should ever post here. Apologies for any inconvenience. TTYL >Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 04:27:59 -0400 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Movie > >Thank you for your interest in Red Hat's products. > >For the latest product errata, please visit these pages on the Red Hat >website: > >http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/updates.html > >(This page lists all available errata. If the errata includes updated >software, you can manually download the software from each errata page.) > >http://www.redhat.com/network/ > >(This is the main page for Red Hat Network. Once registered, you can use >Red Hat Network to download and install updated software in a more >automated fashion.) > >Again, thank you for your interest in our products. > > Red Hat, Inc. >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
