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Re: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list
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Larry Kollar |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:40:37 -0400 |
I am writing to let you know I will be signing off of the groff list
later today. The postings I have recieved today are all viruses - no
content. This situation has gotten steadily worse over the past couple
of weeks until I can no longer tolerate it.
Even at its worst, I never thought it was overwhelming -- maybe five
messages per day -- and (at least here) it's not nearly as bad as it
was a couple of weeks ago. I think my ISP is cutting off many of them
before they can reach me.
Everyone has an opinion about where the spam is coming from,
mine is that someone *subscribed to the groff list* is infected and
unknowingly sending the viruses. My reasoning is that viruses
sent to the groff list (that I've seen, anyway) are sent using the
names of well-known listers (such as Werner or Ted Harding) --
and the way these things work is that they read the victim's
address book to get addresses to send & forge. I was also under
the impression that messages from non-subscribers got diverted
to the list owner for vetting.
Having said that, everyone has their own level of tolerance. The
traffic here has been low enough that I can ignore the junk, others
may be seeing more than I do for various reasons. I hope you
will check in from time to time, anyway.
--
Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t
Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival"
http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/
- RE: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list, (continued)
- RE: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list, Ted Harding, 2004/04/20
- RE: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list, Meg McRoberts, 2004/04/20
- RE: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list, Ted Harding, 2004/04/20
- RE: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list, MJ Ray, 2004/04/20
- [Groff] Blocking spam (was: goodbye to the groff list), Greg 'groggy' Lehey, 2004/04/20
- Re: [Groff] Blocking spam (was: goodbye to the groff list), Keith Marshall, 2004/04/21
- Re: [Groff] Blocking spam (was: goodbye to the groff list), MJ Ray, 2004/04/21
- Re: [Groff] Blocking spam (was: goodbye to the groff list), Colin Watson, 2004/04/22
- RE: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list, Brian McGurk, 2004/04/20
- Re: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/04/26
Re: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list,
Larry Kollar <=