This sounds like it, the person is traveling and probably used a public=20
hot spot to E-mail me regards travel plans. Maybe time to keep a=20
separate E-mail address for those sort of things and change the name=20
regularly, or something like that. :~)
On 7/19/13 4:39 PM, Allen Mulvey wrote:
> This sounds like an old fashioned spam bot. When your
> machine gets infected it randomly selects a "from" address
> from your contacts then spams everybody else. It makes it
> hard to find and disinfect the correct machine. It could be
> anyone who knows the selected person. The "invitation"
> apparently did not go to the whole list.
>
> Allen
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-
>> bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Carl Denk
>> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 9:47 AM
>> To: PICLIST
>> Subject: [OT] uninvited sponsorship to Google Talk
>>
>> This morning I received an invitation to join "Google
> Talk"
>> sponsored by
>> by someone I am only familiar with via the PICLIST. I find
> this
>> offensive, and ask that my name be removed ASAP. To use
>> a mailing list
>> to initiate such an invitation is beyond the etiquette of
> lists.
>> If
>> someone believes a person might be interested in joining
>> the endevour,
>> then they should inquire first privately, or less
> desirable,
>> make the
>> service know in a general way to the list.
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