In Regard to Thanka ec^ha

[Mary Marino]

John -

I just received an email from you that was blocked by the U of Saskatchewan
system with a virus warning.  Maybe this has something to do with this
incident you described below.  Mary

At 10:23 AM 8/20/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Be careful.  At least one list subscriber got what looks like a letter
>returned to him from the list, indicating in proper form that he is not a
>subscriber - he is - but containing a payload for the latest email virus.
>It is possible to get subscriber names for non-silent participants from
>the list archives, so somebody could put something like this together as a
>way of persuading you or your system to open the attachment, or in an
>attempt to get you to send the attachment to the list in your own name.
>
>I haven't figured this one out.  It might have been specifically hand
>targetted at the person in question or it may be that it was generated as
>a side effect of one of the now standard schemes for making nastygrams
>look like they are just something coming back to you or, alternatively,
>for making mail appear to be coming from an address that is actually
>non-existant or irrelevant, but do please be careful about opening at
>least bounced back mail from the list, and do make sure that your virus
>protection software is up to date.
>
>John E. Koontz
>http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz