Just wanted to give you a heads up on my hotmail account. If you have received an e-mail that appears to be from me at my hotmail account, and it is an advertisement or something soliciting sales or donations -- whatever -- it DID NOT originate with me.
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I didn't like Bush, but that doesn't mean I
have to love Obama.
And just because I don't love Obama, doesn't
make Bush look any better.
This message has been edited by barbhardi on May 10, 2009 6:37 PM This message has been edited by barbhardi on May 10, 2009 6:37 PM
Didn't receive any, Barb....but someone else told me just lately that their hotmail account got hacked into. What is up with all of this, anyway? Deperation?
Off to the pier and dinner.
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
Barack Obama
Acceptance Speech at Democratic Convention Aug 28th 2008
I don't know what's going on with Hotmail, Mari. When I checked that account -- which I only do about once or twice a month, to get rid of the spam -- I saw that my "vacation reminder" was "on" and there was a message there that I did not put on there. It was a sales pitch for some electronics, etc. The best I could tell, it showed origins in China. Some folks were rather upset, thinking I had tried to sell them something! LOL! As I said, it's just a throwaway account, and I think I'll just close it anyway.
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I didn't like Bush, but that doesn't mean I
have to love Obama.
And just because I don't love Obama, doesn't
make Bush look any better.
Close it, please. If someone hacked that far into you, they are dangerous. These cyber terrorists are sick but not stupid.
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"We are all equal, but we definitely are not the same"
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Well, this pretty well explains it. It shows exactly the message that was entered as my autoresponse. I hope those who were bent out of shape by receiving this now understand that I truly did not instigate this.
Inka, while deleting messages in my hotmail account I saw several people from the boards who had received that message. I've closed the account so I hope that takes care of the problem.
P.S. If you have a Hotmail account, it might be a good idea to check your "vacation response" and see if it has been hijacked too. I didn't even know mine had been until I started checking out the account.
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I didn't like Bush, but that doesn't mean I
have to love Obama.
And just because I don't love Obama, doesn't
make Bush look any better.
This message has been edited by barbhardi on May 12, 2009 10:52 AM
The same thing happened to my sister in law about a year ago. It was her yahoo account. I knew she wasn't sending the spam because she was in the nursing home. It took the longest time to convince her Husband and sons that this needed taking care of.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
I also got that message from you Barb. I even replied to you. Thanks for straigtening it out. It didn't seem like you when I got it, but replied to you anyway.
It also was in my hotmail acct. I use that site for my throw away mail anyway.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
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Eleanor Roosevelt
