Re:

[Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

Larry,

I suspect those were spoofed messages, that is forged From: headers. 
Attachments don't come through on real killietalk messages. I receive lots 
of messages from all sorts of people I don't know (and some I do) with 
virus attachments. I just assume these days that the addresses are spoofed. 
Some of the modern worms and viruses even contain their own SMTP engines 
for sending out these bloody things.

As email has become such a burden to many people because of junk mail and 
viruses, let me float an idea. I'd like to get a feeling for how people 
would feel about using forums on the AKA web site. I see several 
advantages: threading would be better (it seems we'll never convince people 
to change headers on email messages); you could be selective about what you 
read; forums should reduce the threat of viruses; both public and private 
forums could be used, some for everyone, some only for AKA members (the 
latter might include forums designed to talk to BOT members, for example - 
note that I haven't asked them about that yet). The latter would be another 
"value added" item for membership. I think this would reduce traffic on 
killietalk, but I am not sure that's a bad thing.

So, could we start a thread about this so that I can get a measure of 
people's interest? If we did it, I would need some of you to volunteer as 
moderators for certain forums, doing such things as moving messages from 
one to another if it were necessary.

Barry

At 09:04 AM 8/24/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> I've received at least 25 emails from the killietalk list which had contained
> the sobig virus.  Fortunately, AOL automatically stipped the attachments out
> of the mail.
>
> AOL claims that they strip about 38,000,000 harmful attachments out of
> incoming email every day.
>
>
> Larry Tagrin
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Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University
Home address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)


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