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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Dear TLUG users,</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">First of all I feel really sorry about the annoying that those Out of Office emails brought to you and I was surprised also this morning when I got back to office. It's not working the way I setup the responding rule because I only setup to respond emails directly sent to me, not to the email list !</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">After digging into the list archive and my email history with the help from my system admin, I feel it's very necessary to tell you guys what have happened.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">1. There is no Out of Office email in the list archive so I am assuming my email program didn't send that email to the list address.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">2. Not every one got Out of Office response when they posted their message to the list.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial">3. A guy impersonated me to send me a email on Apr 17 and email log indicates it's from node1.opengeometry.net</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial">4. A guy send out a email with my contact info to the list on Apr 24 and the email log indicates it's from node1.opengeometry.net. Please note this is obviously violating my privacy !!!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">5. I got some people using telnet into my email server and send me email directly</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial">6. A lot of email sent to me directly by telnet into my email server and impersonating they are from email addresses who claimed they got the Out of Office response.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Based on those, it's clearly that this event could possibly caused by someone intentionally or by some kind of virus out there but not on my systems. I did the proper setup so please don't blame on me any more.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Also I want to point out that item no. 4 is extremely un-acceptable and I want that guy try his best to remove the impact ASAP. I will hold my right on that according to Canadian law and please remember your information is logged everywhere as well.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Hopefully you guys are still reading this and let's build the clean, safer community together.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Thanks.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">John</FONT>
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