other virus damages/costs.....(hello skynet.be ?)

Mon Feb 2 13:56:36 UTC 2004

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:57:07 EST, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>  said:
> all of them forge their email address, what is the point of warning the 
> "sender."  Even better, I wake up this am to 285 (and growing) messages 
> below telling me that someone at skynet is trying to send me a virus 
> message and it cc's 64 other people.  Nice.

And at least one of those other 64 will next time actually get a virus,
where all those addresses will get used to seed the address scraper.
Remember that hitting 'delete' usually doesn't actually wipe it off the
disk in most MUAs....
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