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Joe Potrebenko joe at asl.bc.ca
Thu Dec 30 16:07:00 EST 1999


SPAM VICTIMS

Starting Dec 22nd and overnight until the morning of the 23rd
Spam was sent from our mail server. This message did not come from
our company or any employee of this company. The server was taken
off line until its out bound queue was deleted. Most of the
spam email in that queue had already been delivered.

With the discovery of this annoying problem, our Mail server is being 
upgraded to prevent this from happening again.  What we believe 
happened was someone from outside of our company choose to dump 
this email onto our server for delivery. They appear to have had a 
random number generator for the return address, so what you might 
have seen was a return address of 87693795 at 07854.com

We wish to apologize to you, and reassure you that 
steps have been taken to correct the problem immediately.

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      \\|//                         Joe Potrebenko
      (o o)                      Systems Administrator
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Unix is user friendly, but its selective about who its friends are.
Andrew Sheret Limited, 712 Bay St., Victoria BC. V8T-1R2 Canada
Ph:(250)386-7744, Fx:(250)381-4210, Web Page: www.sheret.com

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