[Boatanchors] Strange message - Followup

[Carl]

If Gary is in 9 Land its not him. The origination is in the Boston Metro 
region which includes this part of SNH.

We dont even have DSL in town!

Carl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: "Boatanchors @ Mailman" <Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Gary Pewitt" <n9zsv at cei.net>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Strange message - Followup


> Gary,
>
> Not a problem!
>
> It just looked fishy all the way around.
>
> It simply disturbed some of us and we wanted to ensure the list system
> didn't get hacked or infected with malaware.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bob - N0DGN
>
> Gary Pewitt wrote:
>> Sorry for the trouble. I sent the message, I thought, to the list
>> manager. I got the message from, I thought, the list manager. It said
>> my address had been sending spam. I have completely removed
>> windows from my computer, formatted all hard drives, repartitioned all
>> drives, and installed Ubuntu Linux as the -only- operating system on
>> my computer. As far as I know Linux is not vulnerable to bot-nets so I
>> suspected the message to be a fishing attempt. So I tried to send it
>> to the list manager to see if it was genuine. I apologize for the
>> mistake and I will try not to make any more.
>> 73 Gary N9ZSV
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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