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For half an hour Thursday morning my account was turned off. That's a big
drag for me, as quite a bit of mail can bounce in that much time. Please, if
you send me something and it bounced, send it again.

An evil e-mailing program used my address last night to send out over 900
copies of an e-mail called "please do this."

I hope you didn't get one.

If you got one, I'm sorry; I hope you didn't open it. It's a website
claiming to be about t-shirts, but it's just an e-mail collecting thing. If you
haven't opened that e-mail, GOOD. Just delete it. I didn't send it but it
surely clearly LOOKS like it did, because that's something their ugly program
can do.

If you opened it and didn't go to the webpage, GOOD. Then it's not likely
to happen to you.

I'm sorry for the trouble, but when people DO get that "please do this" it
never really comes from the person it seems to have come from (which seems to be
always someone whose e-mail that person recognizes). There ought to be a
law. <g>

Sandra


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Deb

Oh that's nasty...Our email program will hold outgoing messagges if
it sees the same subject more than once or twice. Rick was trying to
send my mom some pix from our travels and the subject on each was
Live and Learn conference - they got held until he adjusted the
subject lines. It does this to keep email 'worms' from using you
like a host. Might want to check your anti-bad stuff program (the
virus, spam, etc checkers) and see if you have something to guard
against worms grabbing your address to send zillions of emails.
--Deb
--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> For half an hour Thursday morning my account was turned off.
That's a big
> drag for me, as quite a bit of mail can bounce in that much
time. Please, if
> you send me something and it bounced, send it again.
>
> An evil e-mailing program used my address last night to send out
over 900
> copies of an e-mail called "please do this."
>
> I hope you didn't get one.
>
> If you got one, I'm sorry; I hope you didn't open it. It's a
website
> claiming to be about t-shirts, but it's just an e-mail collecting
thing. If you
> haven't opened that e-mail, GOOD. Just delete it. I didn't
send it but it
> surely clearly LOOKS like it did, because that's something their
ugly program
> can do.
>
> If you opened it and didn't go to the webpage, GOOD. Then it's
not likely
> to happen to you.
>
> I'm sorry for the trouble, but when people DO get that "please do
this" it
> never really comes from the person it seems to have come from
(which seems to be
> always someone whose e-mail that person recognizes). There
ought to be a
> law. <g>
>
> Sandra
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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In a message dated 10/20/05 11:35:54 AM, debra.rossing@... writes:


> Might want to check your anti-bad stuff program (the
> virus, spam, etc checkers) and see if you have something to guard
> against worms grabbing your address to send zillions of emails.
> --Deb
>

Thanks.
I'm just so sad it's possible to do.

Sandra


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