Crap mail lacking a Subject Header

[Fairlight]

Apologies in advance for this not being threaded properly, JPR.  I approved
your message when mailman had it hung up, but it was zapped by IgLou's spam
filters for a score of 12.3, and I no longer have the original.

JPR said:
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> So now I know that AOL's mail filters peek into the body of incoming
> email...
> 
> I think I will also surmise that my friend and Courtney were both
> victims of another security fuck-up on Windoze.
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1) Always assume your email isn't private, unless it's GPG/PGP encrypted.
Actually, I was taught "never", by my mentor at university, but that was
before the advent of PGP--or at least its widespread availability.  Even if
you fully control one endpoint, you don't control the other endpoint, nor
any relays in use.  (I know -you- should know this, JP, I'm saying it for
others' edification.)

2) What else is new with Windows?  :/

What -really- frosts my cornflakes is that this is now -three- times the
list has been attacked by Courtney's computer(s).  There was the first one
that I started the security thread on.  Then there was one like the next
day.  And sitting in mailman, along with your own message, was ANOTHER one
from Courtney, which had a different URL at the same initial shortener, but
which was quite obviously the same crap.  I discarded it, saving everyone
the trouble.

Someone needs to get on Courtney's case and get him to clean his $Diety
d***ed computer, already.  I dunno about Bill, but I'm already tired of
dealing with it.  And unless Bill tells me otherwise, the -next- message
I see coming through from Courtney that's of the same ilk, if I get to it
before Bill does, I'm removing Courtney from the list without any personal
warning.  Enough is enough.  I -should- have done it this time, come to
think of it, and wish I had.  If there was ever a reason to unsub someone,
this is it.

(How lax [non-existent] does your security have to be to not only get
infected, but not -realise- you've been infected with something this
virulent for at least four days?)  *sigh*

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