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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: virus or? (Those crazy ICG folk)
It appears to be caused by an someone replying to all, instead of just the originator of the message. Since most of the recipients were role accounts under a ticketing system, the auto-responders took over, creating an interesting loop; It provides a good reason why an auto-responder should strip out the Cc: when sending a response. The original message is below, although I still question its intent. Please don't reply to the message if you receive it, it should die out. Joe > Hello, my name is Jim I am the Transport NOC Manager at ICG > Telecommunications. I would like to know if you will be working under a > moratorium during the holidays? I am also interested in building a solid > working relationship between our departments. Please respond with contact > information so that we can begin working together. > > Sincerely, > > Jim Meslovich > NOC Transport Manager > W Ph. 303-414-8087 > Pager 303-826-6931 > Cell 303-915-6344 > [email protected] On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:31 Canada/Eastern, Randy Rostie wrote: > > > We received the following email, with an incredible number of email > > addresses in the cc: field. We did not even get the original message. > > Maybe someone has a virus on their computer? > > Maybe someone forwarded all the addresses to a public mailing list > which is archived on the web in multiple places, and the addresses got > harvested by spammers? > > Oh well, if not, I'm sure it will happen shortly. > > > Joe >
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