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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.