SEELANGS Administrivia - (was Re: GROUP/Virus Prevention, etc.)

[Alex Rudd]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:30:27 -0800 Maryna Vinarska forwarded:
>> To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a
>> contact in your email
>> address book with the name : "!0000" with no email
>> address in the
>> details.

Dear SEELangers,

First, disregard this "trick" and if you want to know why, read these:

http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/0000hoax.shtml

http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99213

Second, please, resist the temptation to post Virus Alerts to SEELANGS.

If you receive a virus in private e-mail from someone who also
happens to be a member of this list, chances are it's because
your e-mail address is listed in that person's e-mail address
book.  Feel free to write to that person off-list, but spare the
rest of us.

We all know there are computer viruses out there.  There are
things you can do to protect your own computer and you should
be doing them.  If you don't have an anti-virus program running
on your computer, consider getting one.

If some new virus appears that's so deadly to be of concern
to everyone, rest assured that the mainstream news media will
cover it sufficiently well to alert all your fellow subscribers.
There's really never a need to post a virus alert here.

Finally, please know that LISTSERV automatically strips all
attachments from messages sent to SEELANGS, so even if a
list member's computer was infected and sent a virus to the
list as an attachment, it would not be distributed to you
via this list.

Thanks.

- Alex, list owner of SEELANGS    seelangs-request at listserv.cuny.edu
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Alex Rudd                ahrjj at cunyvm.cuny.edu            ARS KA2ZOO
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