From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 13:54:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001C616A4E1 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from themango.org (64-151-22-206-dhcp-kc.everestkc.net [64.151.22.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A9943D1F for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:54:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luke@themango.org) Received: from www.themango.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by themango.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2E484517F; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:54:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from 208.24.179.208 (SquirrelMail authenticated user luke) by www.themango.org with HTTP; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:54:50 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34819.208.24.179.208.1077141290.squirrel@www.themango.org> In-Reply-To: <6731.162.114.211.143.1077134894.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> References: <45614.207.43.195.204.1077067743.squirrel@www.themango.org> <6731.162.114.211.143.1077134894.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:54:50 -0600 (CST) From: luke@themango.org To: aaron@alpete.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: luke@themango.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My fault or just Spam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:54:32 -0000 > unfortunately, it's likely it's your fault for using email, hehe... Damn this new fangled technology! If only this mailing list was backwards compatible with the USPS. :) > at > least one of the recent windows viruses steals addresses from the address > books of infected machines and sends out mail to/from those addresses. > It's likely that someone that had your address in their address book was > infected and your email address got abused as a result. This is what I was wondering, if somehow my email address had just been snarfed from this list or if some poor soul on the list was infected with such a virus. > i have definitely > felt the pain of that over the last month, as i'm sure many others have. > i can't even avoid the pain of using windows by not using windows anymore. > i have to convince everyone i know not to use windows :) Yeah, it's a real shame and trying to get people out of their comfort zone to try something else seems to be nigh impossible :). But at least I feel better about what I've configured so far... it's now time for me to learn more about stopping spam at my server. I believe there was a thread about this not too long ago. Off I go. > aaron > Luke