Wormy Monday

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2003

It's been like this the last several Mondays. During the weekend, the
number of Swen Worm emailings I get dwindles to only about two dozen a
day. (Swen is the one with the .exe attachment that purports to be from
"Network Security" or "Microsoft Internet" or whatnot, but just causes
itself to replicate.)

Then, starting Monday morning when Fred Fuckwitz goes to work and
re-infects his PC, all of the sudden I start getting 20 or more an
hour. My first download at 8 EST was ALMOST NORMAL. When I checked an
hour later, WHAMO, worm farm in the mail box.

All this shit's filtered, I don't have to remove it manually, but
#^^$&#$ nonetheless. The one GOOD thing about it is that it gives me a
good excuse to ignore legitimate email.

This has been my whiney complaint for the day. It is free. For
thoughtful observations and crowing cries of triumph and victory, see
a.b.s. (we take credit cards).

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB

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From: polar bear <bear@pole.com>

well, they call it wormy monday
but tuesday's just as bad......

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Rev. Ivan Stang <stang@subgenius.com> wrote:
> Proud Baby Mudfoot <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> > "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote
> > > All this shit's filtered, I don't have to remove it manually, but
> > > #^^$&#$ nonetheless. The one GOOD thing about it is that it gives me a
> > > good excuse to ignore legitimate email.
> >
> > I guess that's a good reason to leave it as it is. BUT (I think) your own
> > mail provider gives you web-based access to procmail write-ur-own recipies
> > and lots of other cool whitelist/blacklist kinda stuff. Works great, I can
> > attest.
>
> Yes, I'm already using a lot of that stuff.
>
> Actually come to think of it I COULD blacklist those fuckers, couldn't
> I, according to who they're from -- just copy my Eudora filter list to
> that. Ah so. Thanks and a tip of the foreskin.

I did it and it appears to be working. Copied my email prog's filters
list over to the blacklist (MANUALLY!!@^#%#$$#). I still have an excuse
to ignore legit mail; I can always say my clumsy blacklist screwed it
up. If I continue to add all those From: "Microsoft Inet Mail Security
etc." combos as they come up, that should poison most of the wormies
before they get a chance to crawl into my in-box. I'm not using Windows
so the worms can't infect me but they sure have been slowing my
downloads until now.

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