Re: [Phys-L] everyone get this? Re: *****SPAM***** article issues

[bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

> On 2017/Mar/11, at 16:31, Snidely Whiplash via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> wrote:
>
> A spambot sent a message to the list earlier today.
>
> Before asking hundreds of people whether they got it, check the archives.
> Go to https://www.phys-l.org/archives/ and click on current month.
> If the message is in the archives, it got sent to the list.
>
> Better yet, look at the From: address.  If it says something like
>  From: "Phys-l" <jbgood@otenet.gr>
> then you know it's a clumsy forgery.

...

> Email was designed at a time when nobody worried about security.

Yes, included in an article in the recent Atlantic (IIRC). 


bc accepts the knuckle rapping.



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