Apologies for the cross-posting, but just in case someone said something of importance to me between the hours of 9 AM and 2 PM CDT today, thought I'd cast my net broadly...

Today I checked my e-mail before leaving the house (8:30 AM CDT or thereabouts), and everything was OK.

Work was busy this morning and I didn't get a chance to check it again until around 1 PM.  My 10 MB Mindspring inbox was completely full, and, in fact, appears to have filled up shortly after 9 AM.  It looks like someone forged my e-mail as the "reply-to" address on a massive virus mailing, and I got hit with all the bounces -- well, that, or someone hit me with several hundred copies of a virus that masquerades as a legitimate bounce, or a combination thereof.  

Anyway, at 40-43K a pop, it didn't take long for them to overwhelm my account.  They're still trickling in, as a matter of fact.

I don't think my computers were used to send them -- the home PC is behind the router's hardware firewall, there's nothing suspicious in my Webmail "Sent" folder, and Norton Anti-Virus regularly scans all my machines.  I'll take another look at everything today to see if something slipped past the defenses.

Anyway, if you sent me anything since 9 AM this morning, I haven't seen it.  And I'll probably have to re-subscribe to a lot of e-mail lists.  Bother.

later,

Miles