>Dear fellow malacologists:
>In the last few months I received in excess of 100 spam and junk mail
>including a virus or two !! My anti-virus programme does intercept viruses,
>however, it is somewhat surprising that among the spam mail  are also daily
>E-mails from e-conf for instance from Arno Brosi, Mienis, Paul Monfils,
>Vicky Wall, Andrew Grebneff, Linda Bush etc. I have to separate them from
>the spam mail (which is a risk for the computer) and file them with "normal"
>E-mails so that I am able to read them. It appears that other participants
>of e-conf receive their mail in a similar fashion, which is the reason that
>not all the mail will find its proper recipient...
>Cheers,
>Lubosh

Er... what's e-conf when it's at home?

My university server has been target for numerous viruses (it was the
very first in the world to be hit by one of the bad ones recently),
and this resulted in ongoing generation of spam... my own computer is
a Mac and won't be touched by, nor send, spam/viruses. *I* won't send
any either!

The server has been fitted with new software which hopefully will
cure the problem; it also rejects any incoming .exe and other
virus-prone file types, so now it should be unable to send viruses.
We hope!!

I can'tsay that I've received any spam purportedly from any listee I
recognize the name of. Of course spam sender's address doesn't have
to be real... spammers know how to put in false sender addresses.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
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Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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