Off Topic, But List Related -- Tired of Getting Spammed Via

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 25-May-2002 François Pinard wrote:
> [Peter F. Ferris]
> 
>> I would like to think no one in the group is a spammer (I may be naive at
>> times!).
> 
> It might be unrelated, or not.  I care for a few lists opened to subscribers
> only, and recently, I saw unwanted email circulating on them.  In the
> few cases I looked into a bit more closely, originators were all running
> Microsoft emailing agents, and had their systems infected.  So I guess
> subscribers had these messages sent against their will -- I mean, once we
> accept to disregard the will they have for running questionable software :-).
> 

unfortunately many businesses force their employees to run M$ mail products and
then do not offer sufficient IS services to help them deal with the problems
that causes.