Jeff Nightbyrd's email account full and bouncing

[Michael Eisenstadt]

I note that Jeff N's sbcglobal.net email address
is full and just bounced an agl maillist posting.

This permits me to conclude that Jeff has posted 
to Usenet groups using his address without 
obfuscating it with text like 
nightbyrd@sbcglobalNOSPAMIMNOTKIDDING.net

When a poster does that she often instructs human
readers to remove text to reply at the bottom of
her letter.

I too lazily used my michaele@ando.pair.com address
in posting to Usenet groups. A kobold or maybe it
is a Osama bin Laden sympathizer has brought down
millions of Usenet posters email addresses. This
attack commenced last Friday. he/she has automatically
gathered up (mined as the slang has it) addresses 
used in the Usenet groups. Those that put 
antispamming phrases in their addresses are reporting
NOT getting the bombs.

When analysized by experts SWEN turns out to be very 
cleverly written in terms of dicking around with Windows 
OS registry key anomalies to hide the worm and it is 
being distributed so cleverly that it is currently 
impossible to trace.

If you are using a Web based email address and 
are receiving 142k and 155k SWEN virus files, 
you are royally fucked unless you enjoy dicking
with Yahoo email commands to flush hundreds of 
virii every morning.

If you are using a POP email connection you and
are likewise getting SWEN (which spelled backwards 
is News) virii, you are also getting royally fucked 
if you have to download them with a dialin phone 
connection.

If you have NEVER posted to Usenet groups with your
current email address, you may not have seen SWEN
in your INBOX and thus have NOT been royally fucked.

I found the fix for POP email users with a dialin 
phone connection on Monday: download and install 
MailWasher which can grab size, Subject and From 
of all of the email in your provider's mail server 
which is waiting for you to download. 

MailWasher does this WITHOUT downloading them and 
then displays them for you to inspect.

You can then delete them through MailWasher from 
your provider's mail server WITHOUT deloading them.

Now I enable MailWasher BEFORE opening my email
reader, this to flush all the bombs into the
bit bucket pour antsy deer. Only then you open up 
the email reader which will then download the 
email you want to read. 

So now one checks MailWasher before checking for mail
the way we used to. 

SWEN is not commercially oriented spam and the motives
of its designer can only be inferred.

Mike