Re: FW: Infiltration by Y2K hoodlums
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:jwild@xtra.co.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 30 December 1999 02:24
> To: debian-user@list.debian.org
> 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 debian-user@list.debian.org 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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