On Sat, 20 May 2006 00:26:09 EDT, Dan Wheeler said: > fairly close-knit communities of participants. We have *never* had an > incident of someone forging an editor address to post to one of the > lists. You're very lucky. At least several times a day, somebody who's at some time been on one of our lists has gotten infected with some virus/worm that spreads by grovelling e-mail addresses off the victim's hard drive. And at least once a month, the worm gets lucky, and finds a listname to stick in the To:, and gets *really* lucky and also finds the right editor's address to stick in the From:... and then out it goes. It was particularly not-fun when some alumnus's machine got a worm, and it lucked into the address for our alumni newsletter, and the owner's name. Even though our e-mail system is over-engineered, it still went 'urp' when a dozen postings to 70K people happened in the span of several minutes, on top of all the *other* worm-bombing that was happening because the A/V companies hadn't released a pattern yet.....