As I just wrote in another mail, what probably happened is that someone with
your address in their address book was infected by a virus that propagated your
email address to an address collector.

Jostein

Quoting Malcolm Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
> 
> > That's pretty much it.  I'm not sure whether there are any 
> > recent worms which don't forge the return address, so these 
> > days you can pretty much figure that anyone _except_ the 
> > listed sender might own the infected machine.
> 
> {Highly informative e-mail kept, but snipped here for brevity of reply}
> 
> Thanks for that, most interesting. I'll certainly look at these messages a
> different way now. I just can't believe how many I get of them - 6 months
> ago I received one a week, now it's at least 20 a day.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
> 
> 




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