From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Adrian Tritschler Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT References: , <20030518231310.8395.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Free Plan 9 "shell" accounts? Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 08:49:54 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b4715f42-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Scott Schwartz wrote: > | anyway, complaining to forged lines will just get the spammer into more grief, > | not less. > > On the contrary. Spammers have put my address on forged headers, and the > double bounces and direct complaints that I got did absolutely nothing > at all to discommode the spammers. Please don't also add forged Received > lines to the collatoral damage problem. Definitely. We've just spent most of the morning dealing with W32/Palyh-a [1]. It arrives in mail that purports to come from support@microsoft.com Klez was more fun, it picked random addresses from people's Micorsoft Outbreak address book to create its own to and from addresses. Amazing how many people _still_ run attachments that come in the mail. I wonder if I put a bottle on the ground labelled "drink me"... Adrian [1] http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32palyha.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Tritschler mailto:Adrian.Tritschler@its.monash.edu.au Latitude 38�S, Longitude 145�E, Altitude 50m, Shoe size 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------