From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V8 #241 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, August 27 2003 Volume 08 : Number 241 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Virus precautions ["David Martin" ] Re: [AVALON] Ferry Live (For the Elite) [Jocelynfiske@aol.com] RE: [AVALON] Ferry Live for the Elite ["Anton van Lammeren" ] Re: [AVALON] Ferry Live for the Elite [Don Schultz ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:27:19 -0400 From: "David Martin" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Virus precautions Thanks for the tips Chris and I'm sure many will benefit if they choose to heed your remarks?However in this day and age with so many of us having access to the internet and use of home computers it is impossible to expect everyone to be as savvy as you and others,and so problems like this will proliferate and continue to cause havoc.It does irk me somewhat when the "Computer Literate" amongst us (The Internet) bark out to the masses at how the DFUs (Dumb Fu#*ing Users ) should be doing this and that without offering any simple straightforward guidance on what to do to fix a problem? Hey ,people don't even understand how to trim a message?(I purposely didn't trim yours as I consider the info useful !)Oh yes,and we all know that even the University educated hit the 'Send' button before they check the 'To' line ......... How many drivers on the road today really know how to drive,let alone find the Dipstick? As both a Driver and an occasional Dipstick /DFU , I think it would be a little more courteous of people to remember this, Regards, DM - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Turner" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:36 AM Subject: [AVALON] Virus precautions > If you fear your Windows machine may be infected with the W32.Sobig.F@mm > virus, you can download a free removal tool from Symantec, the people > who make the market-leading Norton Anti-Virus program, here: > > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.r > emoval.tool.html > > It must be said that the misguided and almost universally unwanted > change that was made to the Reply To function a while back has > exacerbated the problem for Avalonians. With so many replies now made > directly to authors, and everyone consequently appearing in each other's > address books, the risk of infection has been heightened. Outlook > automatically adds the e-mail address of anyone that you reply to to > your address book unless you specifically tell it not to. > > Now when one Avalonian gets infected with a polymorphic virus like > W32.Sobig.F@mm or Blaster, it is immediately transferred incestuously to > many others in the group. When we simply replied via the avalon@smoe.org > address this risk was removed, as this was the single point of contact > and the list address demimed the offending attachments. Oh, and by > coincidence the list was vibrant in those days too... > > Ironically the list manager now complains that the weight of bounced > messages fills her inbox. Funny how autocratic decisions have a habit of > rebounding isn't it? This is a dog that's bitten its owner. > > That said, any Windows user (Macs and Unix boxes and their derivatives > like Linux just don't have these problems) who ventures onto the > Internet without anti-viral protection is asking for trouble. Beg, > steal, borrow, or in case of dire emergency, buy yourself an AV program, > and save yourself and everyone else a lot of grief. > > If you can't afford a commercial product there are a selection of free > ones here: > > http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Software/Anti_virus_freeware/ > > If you use Outlook or Outlook Express consider switching off the > auto-add feature, and removing any addresses you don't recognise or need > from your address book. NEVER open an attachment unless you are 100% > sure of its provenance. > > Thankfully W32.Sobig.F@mm becomes deactivated on the 10th of September. > It won't be long before another arrives. > > Chris > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:22:52 EDT From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry Live (For the Elite) > So yes, it actually happened... Cheers Jane >jeanelouiseuk@yahoo.co.uk writes: Maybe Jonathan read the same sunday supplement? More likely he just has more exclusive contacts than the rest of us. It wouldn't be difficult! Jocelyn NP Ladytron (use you, confuse you, lose you - what genius!) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:44:39 +0200 From: "Anton van Lammeren" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Ferry Live for the Elite Also the same request as Andy made... any chance of continuing this tree? Tara, Anton > -----Original Message----- > From: andy harrison > Sent: maandag 25 augustus 2003 12:25 > To: avalon@smoe.org > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry Live (For the Elite) > > Any chance of one of the quick five fingered Avalons burning > me a copy. > Cheers Andy. > > -----Other Original Message----- > From: KWil632057@aol.com > Sent: zondag 24 augustus 2003 23:42 > To: avalon@smoe.org > Subject: [AVALON] Ferry Live for the Elite > > Congrats to the quick ones. > This cd tree is now closed. > Winners expect your cds by late next week... > > JM ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:32:03 -0400 From: Don Schultz Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry Live for the Elite I would also like to beg audio alms from One of Those Five Nimble-Fingered Avalonians, especially if they are Stateside, but not exclusively... Sign me, A wannabe entertainer of no obvious talent that has at one time or another been dressed as a person of the opposite sex... but never knowingly in the presence of Royalty... Don on 8/26/03 3:44 PM, Anton van Lammeren at avl@dds.nl wrote: > Also the same request as Andy made... any chance of continuing this > tree? > > Tara, Anton > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: andy harrison >> Any chance of one of the quick five fingered Avalons burning >> me a copy. >> Cheers Andy. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V8 #241 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest