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Date:	Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:48:09 PDT7
From:	"Bob" <2lvvuss02@sneakemail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: The "Hi" virus msg to this list yesterday

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** Reply to message from "Ray Davison raydav@charter.net" on Sat, 12 Jun 2004
21:32:05 PDT7

> I thought spoofing someones name was trivial.

It is, I do it all the time. The problem is the virus has no idea that the
email address is a mailing list. Even if the virus knew the address was an
mailing list it would not necessarily know which other email address was
subscribed to the list.

--
Robert Blair

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