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  From: Phil Nitschke <phil@caemrad.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: 31 Mar 1999 08:21:25 +0930

Re: Melissa Virus --- In text format (safe sex)

>>>>> "MP" == Mark Placanica <markpla@box.net.au> writes:

  MP> 
 This will not harm your system, text-dump of word doc called
  MP> list2.doc
 
 Use micro$oft FORMS hole and looks like it grabs
  MP> your password/usernames.
 
 _______________
 
  MP> �Ё��������� >  ����  
 -  /
  MP> 
 �������� ,

  <...SNIP...>

One can only speculate what Mark was smoking when he decided to send
40 kBytes of 8-bit crap including lots of porn addresses to this Linux
list !  (Perhaps his X-Mailer header line helps to explain.)

We've heard about how linux can use procmail or sendmail to filter out
this rubbish.  But further than that, and notwithstanding that I feel
_real_ sympathetic toward those EDS people that have to shut down whole
networks of the most advanced computing power that M$ has to offer, I
fail to see how this discussion can advance the linux community.

The only interesting thing I saw in Mr Placanica's message was at the
bottom of the headers: 

  X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (Win95; I)
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  To: Steven Ellison <sellison@pcsa.net.au>
  CC: Jim Bickford <jim.bickford@flinders.edu.au>,
	  Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990330140436.25368A-100000@freddo.pcsa.net.au>
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
  Resent-Message-ID: <"-difN.0.nD5.JiG0t"@Elizabeth.netcraft.com.au>
  Resent-From: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  X-Mailing-List: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au> archive/latest/694
  X-Loop: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Precedence: list
  Resent-Sender: linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
  X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to base64 by Elizabeth.netcraft.com.au id DAA21377


As I see it, the `X-MIME-Autoconverted' didn't do a very good job !
(Other MIME-readers might make more sense of this than mine.)

The only other consolation I get from this is that I'm not Jim Bickford  
or Steven Ellison; they'll have to get this rubbish twice; on the list
AND via direct email.

Doesn't win95 have a popup that asks `are you sure you want to send this'?

</rant>

-- 
Phil.

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