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Apr 1, 2004, 6:08pm

Just a note for everyone.
If anyone ever gets and email from mpbarrow at yahoo.com it is a fake and
you should report it to AWI with all the header info so they can track who
it came from. I have my Outlook Express set to use that yahoo email
address in my news post so that any spam anyone may decide to send me will
be sent to my yahoo account and not my real ISP accounts.
I NEVER use my yahoo email account to send email from except for one Hammond
Organ news group that I subscribe to.

Paul

Apr 1, 2004, 7:35pm

[View Quote] > Just a note for everyone.
> If anyone ever gets and email from mpbarrow at yahoo.com it is a fake and
> you should report it to AWI with all the header info so they can track who
> it came from. I have my Outlook Express set to use that yahoo email
> address in my news post so that any spam anyone may decide to send me will
> be sent to my yahoo account and not my real ISP accounts.
> I NEVER use my yahoo email account to send email from except for one Hammond
> Organ news group that I subscribe to.
>
> Paul
>
>

Sorry Paul,
Nobody should report any virus/worm/trojans to AWI.
AWI has nothing to do with silly users who opens unknown attachments or not securing their computer properly.
Just because your email address appears in an email, it doesn't mean it is you who sent it.
The latest virii do collect email addresses from the local computer and using it not only as a sender but sometimes as a domain too.

--
Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Apr 2, 2004, 10:29am

You should think yourself lucky that it's only some spam virus spoofing
your address and not a real person.

But yea, report it to Yahoo not AWI.

[View Quote] > Just a note for everyone.
> If anyone ever gets and email from mpbarrow at yahoo.com it is a fake and
> you should report it to AWI with all the header info so they can track who
> it came from. I have my Outlook Express set to use that yahoo email
> address in my news post so that any spam anyone may decide to send me will
> be sent to my yahoo account and not my real ISP accounts.
> I NEVER use my yahoo email account to send email from except for one Hammond
> Organ news group that I subscribe to.
>
> Paul
>
>

Apr 2, 2004, 11:02pm

It has nothing to do with viruses Andras. Shankahtus got a flame email that
said it was from my yahoo email and it was faked from someone who uses the
AW newsgroups (since this is the only place my yahoo email would show up
when I do a NG post/reply) and who is in Spain as the headers indicated.
So it is someone here faking emails again and thus should be reported to
AWI.

Paul


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Apr 3, 2004, 7:24am

[View Quote] > It has nothing to do with viruses Andras. Shankahtus got a flame email that
> said it was from my yahoo email and it was faked from someone who uses the
> AW newsgroups (since this is the only place my yahoo email would show up
> when I do a NG post/reply) and who is in Spain as the headers indicated.
> So it is someone here faking emails again and thus should be reported to
> AWI.
>
> Paul
>
>

I stand corrected assuming you were talking about virus or worms.
I still claim that AWI has nothing to do with hate/flame emails - they are personal communications between two person. Even if your address comes from this NG, AWI has no jurisdiction to intervene.
The only place you should complain is the ISP you received the email from (or to the authorities if it is a threat).

--
Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Apr 3, 2004, 7:52pm

AWI does have jurisdiction if someone here in the news groups is faking
emails using other posters email addresses in the Return header to send fake
emails. After all, they are stealing the email addresses from this news
group which belongs to AWI and I think falls into the category as M A T T
stealing passwords and models.

Paul

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Apr 3, 2004, 8:21pm

[View Quote] > AWI does have jurisdiction if someone here in the news groups is faking
> emails using other posters email addresses in the Return header to send fake
> emails. After all, they are stealing the email addresses from this news
> group which belongs to AWI and I think falls into the category as M A T T
> stealing passwords and models.
>
> Paul
>

I strongly disagree - the newsgroups are readable by anyone so the address can be harvested by anyone without the knowledge of AWI.
--
Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

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