I'm going to top-post for once, because I want mark to see my words before I flame Pete. Mark, the simplest and most plausible explanation is that your friend shared your email address somehow or somewhere. This is the sad but true nature of email right now, there's simply no escape from spam. You can only (reasonably successfully) filter the crap into the bit bucket. I'm a bad person for this post, but I accept that because I'd rather be a bad person than not respond to this fool at least once this year. In the new year I'll be in agreement with the rest of the list and Pete's verbal diahoreah will go to /dev/null There's a wonderful online expression that really sums up the mixture of ignorance and blind stupidity that Pete shows every time he infects this list with his pearly words of wisdom. It's called the "facepalm". The "facepalm" is a textual[1] or pictorial[2] representation of a physical act. The physical act is to place ones upper face or forehead into the open hand, usually with a slightly bowed posture of the neck and head. It's common to have the elbow resting on the desk or table while performing the facepalm. The facepalm is truly a brilliant expression. It signifies exasperation, incredulity, confusion and even resignation; and often many or all of these at the same time. I'm sure most of you get the gist of what I'm trying to say, so I'll call a halt to my rant; but not before saying goodbye to Pete. Pete, I sincerely wish you a very happy new year. You're quite the character and I will miss the amusement your posts have caused over the years. On the other hand I wont have to clean my monitor quite so much because there will be less coffee spluttered all over it wihout your posts. Cheers the noo, Graham [1] http://www.asciifacepalm.com/ [2] http://picardfacepalm.com/ On Saturday 31 Dec 2011 20:05:01 Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Saturday 31 December 2011 18:29:48 Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I watched a video on YouTube the other night. When I was through watching it I emailed the url to a friend of mine via my isp's email. The email isn't connected to Yahoo or Google in any way.
The next day I received emails from Yahoo with the urls of the video that I watched, plus others in the series. I also found out that I was signed up for a yahoo group that pertained to the video, all without my knowledge.
Is there some kind of security leak in Opensuse 12.1 or Thunderbird that would allow this to happen? Maybe everyone else on the list knows why this is, but I am very surprised by it and don't understand why it happened.
Well lets put it like this
while you have Thunderbird running run a term of some for and run tcpdump just watch where things get reported to .
I have stopped taking the sused version of a lot of stuff and have just switched the laptop to Slackware 13.37 this box is next in line for slackware next week
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