Deposing Dictators

[Tim Peters]

[Stephen Horne]
>> I'd like to point out that the large number of 'viruses' I've been
>> e-mailed over the last couple of weeks won't affect my viewpoint. I
>> thought this was an innocent case of other people being infected at
>> first, but it's rather strange that when I reply to these e-mails to
>> warn people that their machines have been infected the addresses
>> mysteriously don't exist and the messages consistently bounce.

[Neil Hodgson]
>     This is not restricted to you. Large numbers of people have been
> receiving these probably due to the Sircam worm/virus. I've received
> some and I'm for the division change.

Ah, *that's* what this is about -- "I send you this file in order to have
your advice", etc.  webmaster at python.org has gotten hundreds of these,
possibly thousands.  We thought they came from Stephen <wink>.  My primary
ISP filters them out, so I've only seen about 50 of them; in *most* cases,
the return address is in fact bogus, although I haven't seen that aspect
confirmed in the tech reports.

> ..
>    That does look like Sircam which uses random English and Spanish
> messages.
>    See
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2776123,00.html

Indeed it does.