From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #491 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, May 19 2008 Volume 13 : Number 491 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- 60s/70s [=?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= ] Re: 60's/70's ecto Joy of Cooking [Ellen Rawson ] Thea Gilmore review [Ellen Rawson ] Re: OT: Ecto Oracle Tech Division question: A new type of SPAM ["Richard ] Re: Scarlett Johansson's "Anywhere I Lay My Head" ["Paul Blair" Subject: 60s/70s Hi. and more sixties/seventies stuff..i'm fond of serge gainsbourg..not that's ecto influencing just pretty far out and still accessible. the arrangments on the most famous songs are stunning. david ackles was a hugely talented and underrated singer. his "american gothic" has baroque arrangments and spirited songs. claire hammill relased a few folk albums that were fine works too. her later stuff veers from stunnning to bland. th eighties song "the moon is a powerful lover" is worthy of ms.bush but is on an uneven album called "touchpaper". anna ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 08:32:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: 60's/70's ecto Joy of Cooking - --- birdie wrote: > Terry has a niece Ona Garthwaite > > She's FAB! > > http://www.myspace.com/oonamusic > > you can find a link to the JoC myspace on her > page.... > > Who's memory got jogged by this? Come on! Mine! :) I was a Terry Garthwaite fan -- she and Ellen McIlwaine were two of my favourite guitarists. Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 08:40:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Thea Gilmore review For once, it was worthwhile reading the Observer Music Monthly. http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/reviews/story/0,,2279931,00.html Ellen PS Adam, I can't make her Bloomsbury show -- would love to as it's a great venue (we saw Karine Polwart there), but it's a Monday. You know where I live and how awake I need to be for work in the morning. :( We missed the Vienna Teng show last Sunday; I was going to sacrifice sleep, but before I could buy tickets, we wound up doing a favour for a fantasy writer. Another sf/fantasy writer, who's a friend, hooked us up with Marie Brennan, who was over here (from the US) doing research for a new book. She needed to get to Wayland's Smithy and the Uffington Horse and could only rely on public transport. We met her at the Swindon station and drove her over there -- a good time was had, but it ended too late to get to London. We are seeing Martha Tilston at Union Chapel on the 30th, though, and the Wailin' Jennys at the Luminaire (first time we'll be at that venue) the next night. Yes, that week is half term. :) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 11:57:35 -0400 From: "Richard Messum" Subject: Re: OT: Ecto Oracle Tech Division question: A new type of SPAM - ----- Original Message ----- From: Nadyne Mielke To: ecto@smoe.org Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 12:24 AM Subject: Re: OT: Ecto Oracle Tech Division question: A new type of SPAM >With all of the ways out there for someone to get your email address, I >wouldn't really worry about which way they got it. For anyone who's been >online for more than ten minutes (fifteen at the outside), it's probably >safe to say that spammers have your email address. >/nm What i find really disconcerting is checking my spam folder and finding messages from (purportedly) myself! The first time it happened i contacted my ISP immediately, worried that my computer may have been turned into a botnet, but she (the tech support person) told me not to worry, my address had been spoofed and that it happens all the time. I must receive spam from "myself" about three times a week. Richard psst, anyone need any cheap Viagra? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 12:20:35 -0400 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: Scarlett Johansson's "Anywhere I Lay My Head" On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Leonora Christina Skov < christina_skov@hotmail.com> wrote: > I ll be reviewing Scarlett's Anywhere I Lay My Head in the Danish music > magazine www.gaffa.dk so I have been listening to it for quite some time. > And > I am not too pleased especially not with Scarlett's faux-Nicoesque > croon.... > Finally, I'm not impressed with Dave Sitek's wall to wall-shoegazey > production which does indeed recall This Mortal Coil and The Flaming Lips, but in a > very > repetitive way. The sonic fog goes on and on and you can't imagine why. I'm with you on this one. The first time I heard it, I thought: "Maybe I could like this, if only Liz Fraser was doing the vocals." The second time I just didn't like it at all--I think your comment on the shoegazey production pretty much hits it on the head. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 10:50:00 -0700 From: "Bill Mazur" Subject: RE: OT: Ecto Oracle Tech Division question: A new type of SPAM I had already changed the password on several sites. Thanks for the advise. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Nadyne Mielke Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 9:24 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: OT: Ecto Oracle Tech Division question: A new type of SPAM On 5/17/08 10:27 AM, "Bill Mazur" wrote: > Thanks again for all of the help on this one. > > FYI: I received an e-mail from the webmaster at Real World (the WOMAD and > Peter Gabriel websites) that several of their servers were stolen. Per the > e-mail, those servers contained e-mail addresses and passwords. Perhaps my > e-mail address was taken from there. With all of the ways out there for someone to get your email address, I wouldn't really worry about which way they got it. For anyone who's been online for more than ten minutes (fifteen at the outside), it's probably safe to say that spammers have your email address. That said, since you know that this server was compromised and it's possible that your email address and password was involved, you should go think about whether you've used that same password elsewhere. If you have used that password elsewhere (everyone uses passwords for multiple sites!), you should go change your password on those other sites to something else. But that's completely unrelated to this spam thing, this is just making sure that a committed hacker couldn't decide to make your life difficult. It's very unlikely that they would, but in a case like this, it's better to go make sure that you aren't using the same password elsewhere. /nm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:58:19 -0700 From: Michael Pearce Subject: Re: OT: Ecto Oracle Tech Division question: A new type of SPAM At 1:55 AM -0400 5/18/08, Nadyne Mielke wrote: >As I understand it, most spam experts agree that the vast majority of spam >doesn't originate due to issues or vulnerabilities in any given email >client. There's little reason for a spammer to bother with the hassle of >writing/updating a trojan to spam when there are enough spam-friendly ISPs >out there, and the cost of either purchasing a list of email addresses, >doing a dictionary hack on known domains, or writing a harvester to harvest >fresh email addresses is very very low. > >This, of course, isn't to say that folks shouldn't keep their anti-virus >software up-to-date or that there aren't cracked computers out there right >now spewing spam unbeknownst to their owner. Rather, it's misleading to >state that this issue had to be a result of a vulnerability in a specific >mail program. Not all spam in general, but compromised emailers are the primary source of the kind of spam that uses a spoofed address, resulting in the aforementioned bounces. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:08:53 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: 60's/70's Hi, after reading the posts I got out my LP of Great Society and it seems I only laid the needle on it 8 or 10 times!! There is a bit of noise at the beginning on both sides but it is very clean throught. I have just recorded it onto the hard drive of my Yamika CDR. The CDs I will burn from it will include a bit of a surprise: Grahm Nash once hosted a night music program on cable. I lucked out in recording a Live Crosby, _Slick_ and Nash Wooden Ships. Anyone interested in getting a CD by matter-mail can email me with an offer of music CD'd in return. We both pay our own postage. Also, I found my Live At The Namless 1976. It was given to me used and is not in good condition, but, I thought I'd mention it to jog some Bostonian's memory. My friend bought it at the The Namless Coffeehouse in Harvard Square, Cambridge, lo, those many years ago. The names of the artists: Richard Johnson (did he open for HR in Troy in 1996??), Betsy Rose, Jill Stein, Bob Holmes, Doug Collind (with 2 tracks), David White (Cambridge with a refrain of "..we're still suck here in Cambridge with our thumbs stuck up our ass."), Paul Cole, Ragtime Eliot Kevin (or Kenin; The liner note are in calligraphy),Jeannie Stohl, and Marty & Fred (Marty O'Conner and Fred McCarty). Any memories out there? Bye, Kerry KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:30:32 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: 60's Oops!!! Hi, That's "Yamaha" and not "Yamika" (sounds like "Yarmulke") Bye, me KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:15:38 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: OT: Ecto Oracle Tech Division question: A new type of SPAM Michael Pearce writes: > At 1:55 AM -0400 5/18/08, Nadyne Mielke wrote: > > >As I understand it, most spam experts agree that the vast majority of spam > >doesn't originate due to issues or vulnerabilities in any given email > >client. > Not all spam in general, but compromised emailers are the primary > source of the kind of spam that uses a spoofed address, resulting in > the aforementioned bounces. It is common for malware that infects Windows systems to look for and extract email addresses from Outlook address books and mail folders. It's not so common these days for Outlook itself to be the direct avenue of compromise. Windows network vulnerabilities and malware users download long with web pages are much more common avenues of attack now. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #491 ***************************