Re: [APML] OT: Spam prevention?

[Alan Voetsch <alanv12952@yahoo.com>]

I had heard that congress was considering shutting this crap down. Did
anything ever happen with that? Or, is it just plain impossible? Can we
send these people a virus that will shut them down? That would be sweet
revenge. Yeah, I like that thought.

Alan

--- Stuart Heggie <Stuart.J.Heggie@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> It is irrelevant whose name appears as the sender - the virus on the
> affected computer is disguising itself by pretending to be a person
> it finds
> in the affected computer's address book. Very upsetting for folks
> whose
> names get used to be implicated. I am sure it is not Rob's computer
> sending the messages.



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