Administrivia; strange messages; subscribing & unsubscribing

[Liblicense-L Listowner <liblicen@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Dear liblicense-l readers.  A number of you have written to me 
(thank you!) to let me know that a confusing message or a virus 
or both (or none) of the above was sent to the list this 
afternoon.

Sincerest apologies to all.  In reviewing messages from the 
moderator's outgoing mailbox, we simply can't tell what happened. 
We did receive, earlier today, several particularly oddly 
formatted messages from an individual who scolded me/us for 
subscribing him/her to a list that was not all about Jesus. 
Since we don't subscribe anyone -- readers subscribe themselves 
-- this was puzzling.  I deleted him/her from the subscriber list 
and received confirmation from the software that the deletion was 
successfully accomplished.  And that should have been that.

As you saw, however, part of this oddity also found its way onto 
the liblicense-l list, which led a number of subscribers to ask 
if the list was having problems, if they were inadvertently 
unsubscribed, and various other questions.

We're certain this was a one-time occurrence.  All of you who are 
subscribed, remain so.  For those who would like to either 
subscribe, unsubscribe, or change e-mail address (which one does 
by unsubbing from the old one and resubbing from the new one), 
please see the easy directions below.

Virus:  a couple of people mentioned that they believed we had 
inadvertently sent a virus message through to the list.  One of 
them sent me the headers of said message.  Please know that this 
message did NOT originate with liblicense-l, with Yale's listproc 
software, nor me.  As we by know all know, the Bad People have 
their fiendish ways: on their best days, they are even able to 
send a spam or virus message as if it's coming from you or your 
best friend.  We must all continue to be vigilant against such 
anti-social behavior.... there aren't any magic pills.

Thank you as always for your patience, contributions, and 
readership of this list.

Ann Okerson/Moderator

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