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From: Winfield Hill
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:33

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Jim Thompson wrote...
>
> I guess my feelings should be hurt... I've received not
> a single one... but my server does some pre-filtering.

 You should have gotten a few, before your ISP learned all
 the new email worm's details.  Another interesting tidbit,
 my domain provider uses the highly-acclaimed spam assassin,
 which sadly fails to get more than about 1% of the offending
 email, possibly due to its semi-random naming scheme, which
 has prevented me from coming up with viable filters.

 BTW, propagating this stuff from email address books has
 an interesting implication: "hiding" your email address
 by making changes, such as you've done, should not be much
 help.  That's because the folks who store your address in
 their address books will have repaired the modifications.

 Thanks,
    - Win

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From: Winfield Hill <whill@picovolt.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,austin.internet
Subject: Re: Worm and Virus attack
Date: 24 Sep 2003 18:33:00 -0700
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