Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:54:50 -0600 (CST) From: luke@themango.org To: aaron@alpete.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My fault or just Spam 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>
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> 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
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