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Re: Spam from fossilcars.com

To: Carl McLelland <carlynneracing@charter.net>
Subject: Re: Spam from fossilcars.com
From: chuck nicodemus <armorseal@spiretech.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:52:39 -0800
Yes I have fake one also ooochuck@youdidit.com

Carl McLelland wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chuck nicodemus" <armorseal@spiretech.com>
> To: "Berghult, Bob" <bob.berghult@lmco.com>
> Cc: "'Jarrid Gross'" <JGross@econolite.com>; "Alpine List (E-mail)"
> <alpines@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Spam from fossilcars.com
>
> > Ididn't open it....After last year I only open who I know.
> > Cheers
> > chuck
>
> Chuck,
> That's a good idea, however....... Assume for a moment I get a virus in my
> computer and it reproduces by sending itself to everyone in my address book.
> You receive the virus and open it because it's addressed to the "Alpine
> List". Thus, no protection.
>
> The very first address in my address book is ficticious. It is
> 00-VirusAlert@bogus.com . Since the address is ficticious, it will obviously
> be rejected and come back to me as a rejected email. This will alert me, and
> I can then alert others, and go scan my system to find and delete the
> problem.
>     Carl

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