I'm guessing that Kirk didn't send this message. There have been a large number of "hijacked" accounts in Yahoo recently and spam like this is showing up everywhere.
My account was hacked about a couple of months ago and my Yahoo contact list was used to send out a few spam blasts. You didn't see any of that here because I don't have any of my Yahoo group addresses in my contact list.
If you use a mail server like Yahoo or Gmail that has a contact list that you can access from different computers, that contact list is out in the "cloud". The hacking is done on their servers and can happen when you're not logged into the system.
So I would suggest that everyone remove any Yahoo group email addresses from your contact lists (it's not like you need to write emails to a Yahoo group, most people can just hit reply to their group notification or post a message inside the Yahoo group itself) so that if your contact list gets hacked, you won't be sending spam to hundreds (maybe thousands) of people's mailboxes with a single adddress.
Fair winds (with less spam),
Eric
Marina del Rey, CA
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Skip von Niederinghausen <farharbour@...> wrote:
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> The message from "kirkmcloren@..." is spam
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