archive-1: SETI To guard against Internet hoaxes
SETI To guard against Internet hoaxes
Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:44:18 -0500
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>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:04:53 -0700
>From: "Rabeau, Art" <art.rabeau@lmco.com>
>Subject: RE: [ASTRO] Fw: {OFF TOPIC} If any one is interested...
>To: Astro list <ASTRO@lists.mindspring.com>,
> "'Justin Hall'" <halld@wincom.net>
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>Reply-To: "Rabeau, Art" <art.rabeau@lmco.com>
>
>This is a hoax. An *old* hoax. This dates back to August or so of last
>year; it is actually a variant of the "Bill Gates" hoax which goes back at
>least to November 1997.
>
>More information on Internet hoaxes can be found at the following sites:
>
>Dept. of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability:
>http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html#disney
>
>Symantec Antivirus Research Center:
>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
>
>IBM Corp.:
>http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert/
>
>Stiller Research:
>http://stiller.com/hoaxes.htm
>
>----------------
>And information on spam (including chain letters) can be found at:
>
>Spam Delenda Est
>http://www.ganesha.org/ptb/delenda.html
>
>The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (CAUCE)
>http://www.cauce.org/
>
>----------------
>And for any chain-letter requests that come your way:
>
>U.S. Postal Inspector's Web page, chain letters
>http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm
>
>Please don't forward this kind of stuff to the ASTRO list. In fact, don't
>forward these at all. *Any* email asking you to forward to as many people
>as you can is utterly bogus. People, like me, who have received this crap
>umpteen times before _really_ don't wan't it. Nor do the system
>administrators whose mail servers get clogged with such spam.
>
>I'm really not trying to flame you, Justin, but I and many others I know
>have fought bitterly to keep spammers and chainers from intruding on our
>email. Join the fight! Educate your family and friends about stuff like
>this... and let's all keep ASTRO spam-free.
>
>Art Rabeau
>Boulder, CO, USA
>
> >----------
> >From: Justin Hall[SMTP:halld@wincom.net]
> >Reply To: Justin Hall
> >Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 4:56 PM
> >To: ASTRO LIST; coomber@sprint.ca
> >Subject: [ASTRO] Fw: {OFF TOPIC} If any one is interested...
> >
> >I received this from some relatives, not sure what's going on,
> > but for what it's worth, I'll send it on anyways. If anyone
> > knows of this to be a scam, I would appreciate the feedback.
>
> <snip>
>