Greetings (Attending Blu Mtg / spam & root-kits)

[garulbricht7 at netscape.net]

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> From: doctormo at gmail.com
> To: garulbricht7 at netscape.net
> Sent: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Greetings (Attending Blu Meeting - 1/17/07)
>
>  Can you really tell an email is spam based on a single word subject 
line?
>
> I'll try and consider spam implications of my messages in future,
>  thank you.
>
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You are welcome...

Tthat was really the point of my email, watch your subject lines;
and no,  I can't tell if it is spam from a single word subject line,
but many of the "Nigerian 419" scam-letter starts out
with Uncle Sugars's famous beginning:
#
#  "Greetings"   ---

with that said:

I worry more about "root-kits" and "trojans" than spam.
Even "tho our machines are behind a pretty good fire-wall
and we are running Linux ... and we have a good back-up system.,
there is stil a risk ...

Even so, any email with a "blank subject line",
as recommended by my Sys Admin  I delete without ever reading --
If it is someone I know (say one of the clubs I belong to)
I may send them an email telling them I deleted it.
But if it's on a list like "BLU discuss"
I jut ignore it, especially if it looks like it
is from a Yahoo, Gmail or Netscape  free-account.

Also I have enough to do
 -- if the subject line doesn't hit me as something I need to know
or can help with -- I will let someone else take care of it.

Regards,
Gar

PS :  Send your replies to the list. -- and not to me direct.
Uless specifically requested, it  is considered  a poor practice
to reply to just one person -- if it is not worth sending to the group
it is probably not worth sending at all -- and that is why subject lines
are so important -- if it's a thread people don't care about --
they just ignore it.


"Just Because I’m Paranoid, It Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t Out To Get Me!"

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