Mario Rups wrote: > > The entire Smithsonian Institute seems to have been targetted. Various > authorities there are also working on it. > > I didn't see it spammed to any list, and I didn't get a copy myself. > > Wonder what the source of the addresses might have been? This is getting > quite intriguing. > In Newfoundland it was a K-12 network called "StemNet" that got copies of the message. I saw a copy someone posted on SPAM-L. It apparently circulated in Ontario as well. There were some indications that it was not bona fide: the person I spoke to at the RCMP said it seemed to use some vocabulary that genuine merchants of such stuff would never use. But that still makes it a reprehensible act, and shows how vulnerable we are in some respects. Bill -- W. Schipper Email: [log in to unmask] Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4528 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7