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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: There is a Virus in your system !!
From: Neo 1061 <invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid>
References: <200205160724 DOT DAA27379 AT smtp9 DOT quixnet DOT net> <004b01c1fcba$113cd300$02000001 AT ukcs> <Xns9210CC7A47088neo1061hotmailcom AT 216 DOT 254 DOT 136 DOT 26> <200205170008 DOT g4H08ih12716 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com>
Organization: Geeks Anonymous
Message-ID: <Xns9210E3EE35B18neo1061hotmailcom@216.254.136.26>
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 02:17:24 GMT
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X-Complaints-To: news AT primus DOT ca
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in news:200205170008.g4H08ih12716
@envy.delorie.com:

> 
>> Exactly who is "you"? You sent this to a mailing list with hundreds of 
>> subscribers, which is in turn gatewayed to a newsgroup. Not a single 
>> individual.
> 
> Ignore such messages.  There's a virus going around that fakes the
> "from" field also, so the bounces go to random people as well.

This wasn't a bounce (e.g. mailer_daemon, blah blah, user unknown...), it 
was a message from someone trying to tell someone else they had a virus...

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