1. email storage

And don't keep a copy of any message sent from you either.
because it would contain your email address in the relpy-to or From field.

In other words, jbrown,  You are being nuts.  It is going to happen.
There is nothing you can do about it.  So, Get over it.

        Lucius L. Hilley III

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jbrown105 at speedymail.org>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Topica Unsubsribing


>
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 03:59:26PM +0200, Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > > -- 
> > > Outlook Users, please don't put my email address in your address book.
That way,
> > > my email address won't appear in forged emails sent by email viruses.
(Which are
> > > technically worms btw :P)
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Sorry, I believe this won't help much against Sobig.F.
> > Sobig.F -- as many other "modern" worms -- searches the whole hard drive
> > of the infected machine for e-mail addresses. And I just read from a
> > German anti-virus expert, that Sobig.F searches particularly thoroughly.
> >
>
> Perhaps the following would be better? :
>
> Users of MS Windows, please do not store my email address in any program
> or file on your hard drives. If you want to remember what my email is,
> write it down on a slip of paper please. Thanks.
>
> > Regards,
> >    Juergen
> >
>
> ;],
> jbrown
>
> > -- 
> > The difference between men and boys
> > is the price of their toys.
> >
> >
> > TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE!
> >
>
> -- 
> Outlook Users, please don't put my email address in your address book.
That way,
> my email address won't appear in forged emails sent by email viruses.
(Which are
> technically worms btw :P)
> --
> Linux User:190064
> Linux Machine:84163
>
>
>
> TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE!
>
>

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2. Re: email storage

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 09:47:17AM -0400, Lucius Hilley wrote:
> 
> 
> And don't keep a copy of any message sent from you either.
> because it would contain your email address in the relpy-to or From field.

Not that anybody bothers to do that...(for my emails anyways).

> 
> In other words, jbrown,  You are being nuts.  It is going to happen.
> There is nothing you can do about it.  So, Get over it.
> 
>         Lucius L. Hilley III
> 

That reply to Juergen was a joke (tho he made it clear he wasn't amused).
In any case it has already happened to me once before.

-- 
Outlook Users, please don't put my email address in your address book. That way,
my email address won't appear in forged emails sent by email viruses. (Which are
technically worms btw :P)
--
Linux User:190064
Linux Machine:84163

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