I got your e-mail. I wrote back. My e-mail addy has been in groups
for years and on many people's address books so some defective spambot
or virus picked it for use as spoof and churns it out. I was getting
them too and that e-mail address (my legit) was not even configured to
send mail on my new computer.
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:17:08 -0500, Animated GIF Man
<AGMLiteForU@aol.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:42:21 -0500, DOC
><docREMOVEthis@it-smells.com> wrote in alt.multimedia.tk :
>
>>
>> On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:52:59 -0500, Poster <poster@mutemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >What are the advatages
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >and/or disadvantages
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >of posting to Usenet in the yEnc format?
>>
>>
>> Advantages is that ot cuts your upload time by about a third or more.
>> Cuts downloaders time by a third or more. Putting the 2 together on
>> big files is a lot.
>>
>> Final file out is the same (identical)
>>
>> Disadvatage is that some people refuse to use a real newsreader and
>> use something like Outlook Express and won't bother using a free add
>> on program that even makes that total piece of shit work. (All "real"
>> newsreaders read yenc coded posts just like the old coded posts)
>>
>> So those that aren't motivated enough to do something affirmative
>> other than using their Wal-Mart computer out of the box don't get to
>> read your files. So you lose those people.
>>
>> In a nutshell, those are advantages and disadvantages. Doc
>>
>
>Hi 'DOC'...
>
>not sure if you got my last two emails, but for last three
>days I've been getting a fair number of totally 'blank' emails
>purporting at least to come from your address [complete
>with spam blocked address]. You or *someone* in this NG
>[if not you, they have your address in their address book]
>is infected with a virus of some sort. NOTE: I am NOT
>getting infected attachments, only totally empty body emails
>from your address.
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