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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture This is getting ridiculous. Once again, I have made an email error. This time I sent a message to the whole list that should have gone to just one person. It must be time for a nice long nap. My apologies. Diane Auslander --- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul F. Schaffner" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 10:28 AM Subject: [M-R] Trust no one (was: diane auslander) > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > > > > a couple of my friends ... received emails from me ... that I did not send. > > I'm not sure how this happened .... > > Neither you nor your computer were necessarily involved at all. Both > viruses and spammers routinely 'spoof' their return address. > If it is a worm or virus, it is most likely sending itself from some > infected computer that has your address listed in a local addressbook. > This happens to everyone sooner or later: if your address appears > anywhere, sooner or later some message will pretend to be coming > from you. Even group addresses (e.g. "[log in to unmask]" or > "[log in to unmask]") that are not users and have no > ability to send messages frequently appear as the return > address on virus emails, probably because some infected computer had that > address listed in its addressbook. In short, it's more likely one > of your friends' computers than yours! > > pfs > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul Schaffner | [log in to unmask] | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html