In case you didn't notice in between your usual amount mail offering to either make your Johnson or b00bs larger, generic v1arga, and Re: My Details, we had a mail loop, not once, not twice, but three times from two separate parties. Particularly ironic in my book was that one party was from the navy.mil (and from a NMCI gateway) was sending out the FCW article on the "good Samaritan" virus clogging up the NMCI network. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0818/web-nmci-08-19-03.asp Diehard, longtime InfoSec News subscribers will thankfully have recognized that the ONE common denominator to mail loops on the list, and it falls down to Microsoft SMTPSVC. So even though articles have been seen and transmitted to InfoSec News, (many times days before) it gets re-transmitted because the stupid Micro$oft servers will apparently resend to any address found on the To: line. Who needs the Osama bin Virus to turn off the SCADA networks, I can only imagine what would happen if you let this clog up a few internal Homeland Defense mailing lists with 10+MB copies of PowerPoint slides over and over. This is truly an annoying "feature" with Microsoft mail servers and I wish someone would address this in the very near future. Blocks are in place, (Two for the Navy) and both users have been expeditiously booted from the list. This is the only ISN message for today, I have been deleting pretty much all the mail coming to isnat_private, which has tallied in the 4000+ message range, not to mention mail from dozens of other defense contractors that haven't patched their systems for the viruses making the rounds, otherwise why else would I be getting mail titled "Re: Your application." when I never sent my resume to them. :) Thanks for your time and patience! William Knowles wkat_private *==============================================================* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ---------------------------------------------------------------- C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org ================================================================ Help C4I.org with a donation: http://www.c4i.org/contribute.html *==============================================================* - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomoat_private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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