On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:28:36AM +1300, Jim Wild wrote:
> Typos piss me off - its 2.25am here at the Home of The Americas Cup...
> Sorry, here goes again....
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, 30 December 1999 02:24
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Infiltration by Y2K hoodlums
> 
> 
> Question?
> 
> Do we need some sort of coded auto-recognition to accompany our email
> to this forum for the next few weeks? Something that would allow us to
> feel secure enough to open the email sourced within the group?
> Or am I being paranoid and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] has not been
> infiltrated by one of the Y2000-Trojan/Virus-Tontine
> 
> I for one would feel safest if all email to the forum came via one
> authenticated
> source (eg the webmaster).
> 
> May we all live in uninteresting times for the next few weeks.....

Well most people don't use Windows for this list email, do I suspect most
of them aren't really concerned about it. As far as authentication of the
senders, that is what PGP is for. For Windows users, just get a good virus
detector.

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