[meteorite-list] SNC varification

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jun 20 16:35:01 2005
Message-ID: <42B72852.4C5466D2_at_bhil.com>

Hi, Darren

    Yes, that's all I ever get.

    I thought a possible program malfunction on his end, or a virus that constructs fake relpies,
attaches nasties that are then stripped by the various security scans in servers along the way, or maybe
he just doesn't understand the proper mechanism of email relpies.

    All his messages that I have received were addressed to me as originator of the message replied to,
with me as their SOLE recipient, and NOT copied to the list, and I have never received them through the
List.

    Now, it appears that he has switched to Jerry! With the List copied, too. But the fact that you have
received earlier messages shows that the message, or an identical one, went to the List, but which I did
not receive. That is, well, curious.

    The absence of any copy to the List is verified by reading the full source version of the email, but
why wouldn't I have received another message if one was directed to the List? Something is going on.

    Dust off your Delete key, Jerry! Or eveybody, as the case may be.

    These messages may very well not originate with him at all, but originate with a virus that stole his
address book data, or all the email addresses in his received messages. His reply to your inquiry
suggest he might be having some email problem.

    Every month or so I get a "failure to deliver" response message on an email message that I never
wrote or sent, with a subject line I would never compose, addressed to someone I've never heard of.

    This ability to "proxy" by sender and server the message origin with no verification possible is one
of the chief weakness of the entire internet system. I don't see anyone fixing it anytime, either. (Or
any way to fix it.)

    I am fairly certain they do not originate with my machine, but are the result of my email address
having been harvested from somewhere else (like this List, or other internet places), as I run a small
totalitarian police state in my little domain of bits and bytes, with multiple regiments of
hunter-killers circulating in its data-blood stream constantly!

    And, perhaps most important, I do not have MicroSoft's mail program on my machine, as it is (or was)
the chief target of those desiring an easy route into your computer, with lots of available program hooks
to manipulate.

    Before the List moved to another host a few years ago, there were viral outbreaks from time to time,
but things are much more stable now.

    Is anyone else getting these "empty" messages replying to their own posts and nothing else?

    I second the poll. Show of hands?


Sterling K. Webb
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Darren Garrison wrote:

> Is it just something about my setup, or do posts replied to by G??ran Lindfors never actually contain
> replies by G??ran Lindfors? I've noticed that all I see is entire posts quoted, but with no added
> material. I e-mailed him about this a while back asking about that, and the only reply was to tell me
> that he "will not have my post" (see below). A quick Googling turned up only that he thinks that he
> has lunar meteorites in Sweden.

> To: <cynapse_at_charter.net>

> Subject: Please I will not have your post !

> From: G??ran Lindfors <mars_at_tele2.se>

> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:11:28 +0200

> Hello Mr.

> Your post(email) came to me from meteorite-list ??

> I will not have your private post, thanks !

> Best wishes!
Received on Mon 20 Jun 2005 04:34:26 PM PDT