I had not posted a thing to the Piclist for quite some time until
about yesterday.  Today, I received a spam from some futures investment
scam (Legitimate businesses don't do this.) and I wonder if anybody else
has also gotten it?  This means that one of the addresses on this list
is a rogue.  The spam comes from a forged address at excite.com

Subject: El Nino !!!

        They have a toll-free number which I gladly called, once to chew
them out and a second time after I discovered that the return address
is forged.

Call Us at 1-800-526-4922, 24 Hrs. a day, seven days a week ,

        I sent a note to the technical/administrative contact at excite.com,
but they may be an innocent bystander in all this, just as the Piclist
is.  Basically, if you got the spam, give'm a call from a payphone or some
other relatively untracible source and cost them some dough.  That's the
only language they understand.

Martin McCormick