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From: "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
References: <list-3153399@logan.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Network abuse
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:50:43 -0400
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Hi Dale,

    Don't know if your conclusion correct or not.  I do know my e mail was
not only harvested but "Hijacked" in that it has been used by Spammers as
the origin for messages I certainly did not send.  However, I get the
"bounces" from their use of my URL returned to me and indications that some
providers are now blocking my URL due to its use by the spammers.  I am
convinced that the spammers got my e mail from a Yahoo list I joined.   I
also noted in one case that a harvester had gotten into the address list of
my own service provider.  My service provider is now blocking virus on its
on and fortunately I rarely see one that has not been "disabled" already.

  So the fact that you might get a message from me containing Spam or worst
yet a virus, don't mean it came from me.  I use Norton's anti-virus to scan
both incoming and outgoing mail and have a hardware firewall, so its very
unlikely it would come from me, but it could some from a spammer or others
that have "Hijacked" my e mail URL.

Frankly, I don't know what you can do about it.  Switching URL is certainly
a pain.

Ed


Ed Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale R." <rogersda@myway.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:35 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Network abuse


>
> Hi All,
>
>    I was afraid of this.  We have a spammer harvesting addresses
> from our list archive.
>
> Just an hour after posting my first message from my new (to this
> list) address, I started getting the same kind of spam that started
> shortly after my last move from email.com to cox.net.  In the
> previous 10 months that I've had this address, I had never received
> a single piece of SPAM.
>
>    Also, I wonder if someone with Jim Sower's address has an infected
> computer.  I recieved a message, through the list, with no text -
> just an attached file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\nsmailPU.gif
>
> I'm not on a computer I can put at risk, right now , so I haven't
attempted to download and scan to see if it's legit.
>
> Sorry to take up list bandwidth this way, but it _could_ become
> important.
>
> Dale R.
> COZY MkIV-R #1254
>
>
>
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