Nope.. looks to me like NIH got hit pretty bad by the latest virus:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/vbsstagesa.html

All these people must have a listserv listed in their Outlook address
books and so the VB virus is just sending out the message to the list from
a bunch of people, and it's (thankfully) getting tagged as spam.

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Steve Howie wrote:

> Does anyone know if the ongoing spamming from NIH.GOV (which the Listserv
> SpamTrap is thankfully catching) is caused by that site being an open
> relay? It looks as though someone somewere is generating userids and
> firing off copies of a file called 'jokes.txt'
>
> Scotty
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