From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg_nospam@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:10:53 -0500
Date: 2003-11-25T09:10:53-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lvJwb.1493$oe.121571@read1.cgocable.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lnn0akvnby.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org
"Keith Thompson" <kst-u@mib.org> wrote in message news:lnn0akvnby.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org...
> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:
> > Every time I post with a new email address to this
> > group, I start getting those pesky Microsoft Update
> > worm messages.
> >
> > If you're reading this group (comp.lang.ada), then
> > and your email client collects email addresses in
> > your address book, then please do a virus check.
> >
> > One or more of you are badly infected.
>
> In my experience, posting with a new address to any newsgroup causes
> an influx of spam and viruses. There's no particular reason to think
> that someone reading this particular newsgroup is infected. There's
> software out there that collects e-mail addresses from Usenet and
> other sources in general.
I don't disagree that it is possible, but I sure hope things have
deteriorated to that level. A few selfish people are turning this
wonderful Internet priviledge into a sewer system.
--
Warren W. Gay
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-25 14:10 UTC|newest]
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2003-11-24 17:11 OT: Somebody on this List Has Worms Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-11-25 8:56 ` Keith Thompson
2003-11-25 14:10 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2003-11-25 18:40 ` Preben Randhol
2003-11-25 20:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-11-26 0:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-11-25 11:07 ` Preben Randhol
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