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my most sincere apologies
I'm sure my address is also being used as I'm receiving hundreds of
"undeliverable" messages for emails I never sent. My machine is absolutely clean; no viruses or spyware. I apologize also to those receiving this bogus mail, but I too have received over 1000 bogus notices for MS updates. I just updated my spam filter to include the most common of these which helps. So far I've been lucky enough to not have ticked off anyone and/or their bright enough to know what's going on. Such are the risks of a public email address. I recently read an article in a tech mag about someone who released a worm that made infected machines go to the MS page and install updates to protect the machine. The worm would self-destruct in 2004. If such a thing could be legalized, it would be great to protect the ignorant from themselves. The rest of us would also benefit. As for the newsbot problem, try some of the listed work-arounds, get a discardable email address used only for newgroups or new-territory surfing, try a proxy surfer, get a good spam filter. Hang in there. Gary "Madgardener" wrote in message .. . my absolute sincere apologies for anyone who received my e-mail regarding this insidious Microsoft and various other titled bogus stuff earlier today. Until this is fixed, I am leaving the group. I will return. Deleting tens of these is wearing me out not to mention that I am now alienating some people again who are in my address book. Not knowing who to delete has made me decide to sit back and keep the large bouquet of friends who has stayed in touch with me despite the years regarding posts and comments I've made these almost 8 years. I am no baby, and I'm not ticked off but I am a caring person and I just am tired of placating and trying to be so nice and it blows up in my face. Today when I crawl outa bed, I will start in my address book and if I haven't heard from someone in a year, they're deleted. As much as I still care and wonder about Starr, Jenny and a few others (my list of names is eight years old), I must let the friendship stay in my heart and memory and erase their addresses. I will post when I clean out the computer. I'm just tired and have the old "I can't seem to be nice to anyone lately" blowing up in me face so I'm just gonna go into lurk mode. I still love my friends. You know who ya'll are. Give me time and I'll probably be back. This was not written to get responses from ya'll not to leave. I'm just tired is all and I've ****ed off about twelve people so far, aggrivated some, discovered others aren't even around anymore and it all saddens me and I can't let this rule my otherwise happy and loving character and positive moods I normally have. Tomorrow I'm planting a tree, three asters, some sedums, bulbs and pulling out the cleome. rain or not, or ESPECIALLY because there's rain. And there will be no more multiple postings again. I usually do what I say but I thought it was a good thing I had notified those in my addy book about this thing and letting them know it wasn't them I was suspecting, but that I'd received way too many of these things. I have McAfee, the Window's XP true patch security program, Outlook's mail guard, BellSouth's mail guard and another patch to keep out viruses and worms. This wasn't something my computer alone had. BellSouth is so inundated with it, they've gone into automated messages for now. Never did I accuse anyone that they'd "given" me this thing. It's world wide. It's because we visit each other in newsgroups. And I will NOT let it keep me from coming to the ONE newsgroup I come to, read, respond to and write to. I've come here for eight years and be hanged if one more asshole will drive me away and cause me to unsubscribe. Total lack of electricity will be the only thing stopping me, my love and care comes to you all, I'll holler back when I have a clearer head about me and my feelings settle down. (I just hope I didn't **** off Victoria, and I doubt I'll even hear back from Zhan madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler overlooking English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee where a gentle fall rain is coming down outside giving the air a wonderful smell and making the frogs and toads sing like the Autumnal chorus, with harmony pipings from the crickets |
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