I **** you, mail gateways.

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From: Adam Rifkin -4K (adam@XeNT.ics.uci.edu)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 02:30:34 PDT

The number of FoRKers whose mailers bounced because a FoRKpost had a
particular subject line is truly ridiculous.

Sampling:

> From MAILER-DAEMON Sat May 6 01:53:39 2000
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to ckmsi1.att.com.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 This message may contain a virus

> From MAILER-DAEMON Sat May 6 01:54:35 2000
> This is the Postfix program at host naughty.monkey.org.
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
> For further assistance, please contact <postmaster@naughty.monkey.org>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the message returned below.
> > > > The Postfix program
> 553 This message may contain the ILOVEYOU virus.

> From MAILER-DAEMON Sat May 6 01:54:45 2000
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mailhub.sightpath.com:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 This message may contain the LoveLetter virus.

> From MAILER-DAEMON Sat May 6 01:56:20 2000
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> (reason: 553 5.0.0 This message may contain the LOVE virus.(05/04/00).)
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to ista.driftwood.com.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 5.0.0 This message may contain the LOVE virus.(05/04/00).

> From MAILER-DAEMON Sat May 6 02:01:21 2000
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to kesha.seanet.com.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 Possibly Infected Message Rejected
> ... while talking to flash.naxs.net.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 This message may contain the ILOVEYOU Virus.
> ... while talking to mail-relay.eur.autodesk.com.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 This message may contain one of the variants of the ILOVEYOU virus.
> ... while talking to smtp.cern.ch.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 This message may contain the I love you virus.
> ... while talking to hfx.andara.com.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 This message may contain the ILOVEYOU virus.
> ... while talking to birch.net.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 This message may contain the ILOVEYOU virus
> ... while talking to dydax.com.:
> <<< 451 <adam@XeNT.ics.uci.edu>... Sender domain must resolve
> ... while talking to proxy3.cisco.com.:
> <<< 553 This message may contain a new virus and has been deleted. (this message was given by the destination server, not by MailShield)

> From MAILER-DAEMON Sat May 6 02:01:24 2000
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> rohit@uci.edu
> (expanded from: <khare@alumni.caltech.edu>)
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mta7.nts.uci.edu.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 553 This message may contain the ILOVEYOU virus or a variant.
> 554 rohit@uci.edu... Service unavailable

Et cetera et cetera ad nauseum. More than 25% of FoRK bounced because
ILOVEYOU was in the subject line. What if I really *did* love you? 

----
Adam@4K-Associates.com

Our highest hope might be that this case will drag along through the
court system for several more years while Sun, Red Hat, Sony, Apple,
Palm, Nokia - you name it - gradually slide the computer industry out
from under Microsoft, making the whole monopoly issue irrelevant.
  -- Robert X. Cringley, Microsoft's Real Worry, Op-ed page,
     NY Times, April 5, 2000

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