Well, I think you are safe with your Mac, Doug, or at least I hope so! since
I have one too.
And you're right that it's not a matter of having a virus on one's machine but
rather of spambots accessing the addresses of whatever server may host a
listserv or various websites, all of which is another matter than the computer on
one's desk.
Someone needs to invent a botswatter?
Best,
Rebecca
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:52:51 -0700
>From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Troubling News--Spambots and this list
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>I haven't received any of those bad notes, Rebecca. And I still feel
>safe with my Mac.
>
>But I do occasionally get e-messages saying that 'I' have sent a virus
>or spam to someone I have never heard of, so stealing e-ddresses does
>seem to be the thing.
>
>Doug
>On 27-Jan-05, at 7:18 PM, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
>
>> I have a mac too, and my best guess at the moment is that this list is
>> fine. I
>> think spambots have picked up email addresses from another list, the
>> poetics
>> list at Buffalo, not this one, and are sending garbled messages as if
>> sent from
>> those addresses. I became aware of this a few days ago when I noticed
>> on the
>> poetics list archive that "I" had sent a message under the title
>> "Re:what about
>> oatmeal?" and it was about three pages of numbers and letters, which
>> was
>> probably taken for some sarcastic comment about certain experimental
>> writings.
>> I didn't send that mail but it was sent with my email address and name
>> to the
>> poetics list. I haven't heard back from them about this yet.
>>
>> I went and looked in the archives and the messages and snap that I've
>> sent in
>> recent days to petetc seemed to arrive ok there. From various replies
>> to them
>> from people on this list, it seems they arrived to most in English (if
>> not
>> necessarily more intelligible!) And it's only Jesse who got this
>> garbled version.
>>
>> I got a message from his address this morning with an attachment and
>> wrote to
>> ask what it was. His explanation was as per his note here.
>>
>> Both he and I are on the poetics list and I think the trouble is
>> originating with
>> spambots there, not here.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Rebecca
>>
>>
>> ---- Original message ----
>>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:28:44 -0500
>>> From: Ann White <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Re: Troubling News--Spambots and this list
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> Hello folks -
>>> I am bitterly glad to read this as I've had nothing but problems for
>>> several days with my email. Something's at work for sure and I
>>> thought I
>>> was immune (Macintosh). Seems one consequence is being delisted from
>>> another listserv!
>>>
>>> If this is for real, are there any savvy folks who know what to do to
>>> counteract the damage?
>>>
>>> Ann White <desperately delurking>
>>>
>>> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>>
>>>> A
>>>> spambot has apparently gotten my ahadada address and is using it for
>>>> some dark purpose. Please don't open any attachments, etc. on
>>>> whatever
>>>> may turn up in your inbox that has a scrambled subject heading and
>>>> the
>>>> Gol.com address, and please let me know if anyone else is getting
>>>> these
>>>> things.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>Douglas Barbour
>Department of English
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>(780) 436 3320
>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
>Reserved books. Reserved land. Reserved flight.
>And still property is theft.
>
> Phyllis Webb
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