Re: FW: Infiltration by Y2K hoodlums
Alternatively, you could invest in a couple of guns, dig a hole and bunker
dowm until this and all the other y2k myths pass.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Collins" <bcollins@debian.org>
To: "Jim Wild" <jwild@xtra.co.nz>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 2:05 PM
Subject: 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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