Chuck wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Hale" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - Worm/Virus
>
> > Can this address be banned. I get an e-mail about
> > quarterly from him on my bellsouth.net account with a
> > nice little virus or worm attached. Norton AV busts it
> > of course, but it does get a little old. It's always
> > this exact same message...
> >
> > David H.
> >
> Options are:
> 1) Ban anyone with a YAHOO.COM ID.  That would include people like
> [log in to unmask] among others and is not on my list of things to
> do.
> 2) Force list owner approval of people wanting to subscribe.  Currently you
> could subscribe, post this sort of message, and unsubscribe before I could
> stop it.
> 3) I am open to suggestions.

This is a virus.  The person sending it did not do it on purpose.
If you could actually see the headers on the mail envelope (called
the RFC 821 headers) instead of the ones on the mail itself (the
RFC 822 headers) you would probably find that it was from someone
who is subscribed to the list and doesn't know that they are infected.

The problem is that the RFC 821 headers get stripped off by the
mail agent, and are never seen by listserv.  Think of it as
regular US postal service mail.  The RFC 821 headers are the
headers on the envelope, and the envelope is opened by the
mailroom, the mail inside is taken out, and the envelope
is destroyed.  The RFC 822 headers are the headers which are
typed at the top of the actual mail.

Harold
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Harold Pritchett
The University of Georgia              Enterprise IT Services
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