I’ve received about 20 of these sorts of emails this week, which is up from the usual 0 or 1 a week:

From: ...
To: comdog@panix.com
Subject: Please Remove

I received a medical newsletter from this email address although I am not
sure it is legitimate.  If you are a doctor and your office has a
newsletter, please remove me from your list.

If this message is in error, please ignore.

Thanks

There’s been a surge in worm activity, I think, so all of those Windows computers infested with it have been sending all sorts of mail using whatever names they find in people’s address books.

It’s still depressing that people think that people who are trying to sell snake oil would use their own name.