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Number: 2136
From: "Sandy Block" <cigarsandy@c...>
Date: Thu Mar 6, 2003  11:20 pm
Subject: Re: Marquis is back after a two week forced silence

Body:
Stupid me ~ I thought you were so quiet because you had a sore throat!

--- In ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com, "InfoSysSec" <infosyssec@i...>
wrote:
> Hi Guys...
>
> I was knocked offline for two weeks by the folks at Yahoo.
Remember those viruses that were floating around in the group mail
and which carried other user's email addresses ?
>
> Ok.. well there was a 'viral marketing' program out there, that
when you download it off the Internet, it runs, installs, and then it
takes all the email addresses in your email book and sends 'product
endorsement' emails to everyone in your address book. In some cases
it uses your email address as the sender - in other cases it uses
some poor soul in your address book as the sender. Guess what...
some one ran that program and my name was attached to the SPAM that
it spewed forth. So Yahoo simply goes and deletes my account
without any warning or chance to explain what appeared to have
happened.
>
> Anyhow chaps, after two weeks, ten emails and a FAX to their abuse
department, the folks at Yahoo decided to re-activate my email
address. But I mention this story so that everyone will be aware of
how fragile an email account at Yahoo.com is - it can be turned out
without notice and without recourse.
>
> I hope that the new email address I posted for this group will kick
in and start receiving email from the McLaren group. But I also
trust you can appreciate what would happen if your primary email
account got nuked without notice or forewarning. If you are doing
business, handling your financial transactions, registering accounts
etc all with one email address - they you too may find out how it
feels when that account is suddenly pulled out from underneath you.
I have learned from this experience and now I am running email
accounts off my own web servers - just to maintain 100% control over
the fate and destiny of those accounts.
>
> Nuff said... just thought I would share why I was so silent over
the past two weeks.