[ale] Spam irony, part two

[ChangingLINKS.com]

Ahhh! I have been getting these as well. Perhaps the person doing this has 
gotten a hold of the ale mailing list?

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On Monday 06 May 2002 16:46, Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Monday 06 May 2002 02:35 pm, you wrote:
> > I've been getting lots of mail with no body and a subject that looks
> > like a random line pulled from a random document.  The from fields don't
> > match the received-froms, and there's always an attachment...
> >
> > I always felt left out when email worms were going around.  I never got
> > a single "I Love You" or "Nimda" letter.  I'm getting plenty from this
> > new one, though...
>
> I've been getting 1 or 2 per day which have suspicious addresses,
> begin with a couple lines of html, and always have three
> "attachments":
>
> 1. a .pif , .exe, or .bat file, which is actually
> about 85k written in Visual C++,
>
> 2. an empty file (zero bytes)
>
> 3. a file that appears to be a random selection, probably
> from the sender's disk. Sometimes a jpg, sometimes html...
>
> item #1 contains some strings that make me think it may connect
> and send e-mail somewhere. Needless to say, I'm not going to
> run these. They wouldn't work on Linux anyway.
> Is this just another 'worm' making the rounds?
>
> Regards,
> Irv
>
>
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