[Xitami] List administrator?

M. Jason Smiley xitami@lists.xitami.org
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:26:11 -0400


do you run an antivirus on your pc? some virii (such as the new klez virus)
will use addresses it finds as the from line - so you may get a message that
appears to come from some one else. it could be something similar with the
subject line.

i've never gotten spam from this list either.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Wells" <flazmort@earthlink.net>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] List administrator?


> The subject lines look exactly like the messages from the list. In fact,
> they were sent to me as if they were continuations of subjects I saw on
> real e-mails from the list.. I thought possibly there was someone else
> on the list responding directly to me with these ads, except that the
> return addresses are all from different list members. One of the
> messages actually was sent to me from my OWN address, according to the
> e-mail... Strange. I'd like to change mail clients to get rid of all the
> other spam I get anyway, but I'll have to go through every website I've
> done since '99 and change all the e-mail links to my new addy.
> (Sigh)
>
> Thanks for the input, though, guys.
>
> - Greg
>
> Scott Drake wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 21:37:39 -0700, Greg Wells wrote:
> >
> >Hi Greg,
> >
> >>Question: Is anyone watching this list or monitoring what goes out?
> >>
> >
> >Everyone monitors the list.
> >
> >
> >>Today I received three different messages that had headings matching
> >>questions on the list, but the contents of those messages were
> >>advertisements. I got one ad from a porn site (gamelink.com), one for
> >>
> >
> >I would double check those emails and if the Subject line doesn't start
> >with [Xitami] you will know they didn't come through the Xitami List.
> >
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Scott Drake
> >East Coast Computers & LAN Services
> >http://www.ec-computers.net
> >
> >
> >
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