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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Baxter The George Washington University LISTSERV Maintainer IT Services, Information Systems and Services [log in to unmask] 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 > -- > Steve Howie [log in to unmask] > Netnews and Listserv Admin 519 824-4120 x2556 > University of Guelph > "If it's not Scottish it's CRRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPP!" >