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WORMS!!!
It looks like it is fairly broad spread. I have been getting up to
100/hour sense Saturday. I have been forced to activate earthlink's rather heavy handed spam blocker so anyone contacting me be forwarned that you will receive a return message asking you to type a code displayed as a graphic so the robots can't see it. Then you can get through. Skip Gundlach wrote: Howdy... You'll note that my 'mailto' and reply addresses are a uga address. That's a forwarding from my first account, which people going back into the early 80s have, so I've kept it alive as a destination, and as a means of knowing when a usenet communication is coming (via the account to which it's posted). However... Any of you desiring to communicate with me off-list should do so at (my name, all one word) @earthlink.net. That's because... One or more of the newsgroups in which I participate has one or more who have been infected with the current MS worm, and it's overloading my mailbox with 150k messages at the rate of a couple hundred an hour. So, I've blocked the engr.uga address, which will bounce all mail coming to me through that address... Yes, I'm protected, and no, it didn't come from me (or it wouldn't be going to uga, as all my mail goes through either the mindspring or earthlink servers). I do daily virus definition and other updates, and dump the infected file automatically, so it never even gets opened in my local computer - but it's overwhelmed my ISP server, and I'm perpetually over quota! We'll return you to your normal programming shortly :{)) L8R Skip -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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