Wirt:
Considering the nature of this email, I would see it being classified as ADM:
in the subject heading, not OT.
It affects all list members and their subscription to the list itself.
Olav Kappert.
Wirt Atmar wrote:
> I presume that everyone has noticed by now that the HP3000-L newsgroup
> frequent posters' names are being harvested and being put in the sender's
> namespace, under all kinds of email subjects, in an attempt to get you open
> email attachments that you wouldn't otherwise open.
>
> Although the people who are doing this are getting quite clever about how
> they're going about this kind of thing, sometimes an amateur slips in and
> sends out his scurilous little bit of email out to everyone in the clear, as
> the one I've attached below did. As you can see, except for the names at the
> very end of the list, are all recent posters to HP3000-L or comp.sys.hp.mpe.
>
> At the moment, and probably for quite some time to come, I wouldn't open any
> attachment from anyone without first verifying that they truly sent it to
> you. And anyone who is dumb enough to open an unknown ".exe" file from
> anyone, no matter whose name is registered as the sender, not only gets what
> he deserves, but will henceforth forever be branded as a tyro, a neophyte of
> the realm.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
> =======================================
>
> Subj: FWD: See this pack from Microsoft
> Date: 3/23/03 5:03:27 PM Mountain Standard Time
> From: [log in to unmask] (Pete Watts)
> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
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> File: q119036.exe (155648 bytes)
> DL Time (TCP/IP): < 1 minute
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