I know I stress about these things far too much, but I have a question for those here who might have more of a clue than I do.
I keep getting weird emails…no subject, no to, no from, and nothing except the date in the body of the email. It’s WEIRD. How do you get something like that? What on earth does it mean??
It means it should be deleted.
well, duh! Even I know that one. But WHY am I getting them? I’m starting to think I should dig out the tinfoil hat 
I worry, too, about the ones I get that say they were sent by me. I suspect viral infection. Best to run your clean-up software now, or get some if you haven’t any.
djm
You get them because you have nice legs.
Boy, I send some irritating emails to myself. A lot! Good thing it doesn’t bother me, either when I get them or when I delete them.
Maybe they’re like those phone calls you get from shy boys in high school…you answer, get a bit of breathing, then they hang up because they don’t know what to say. Maybe an almost blank email is the equivalent? 
I almost never read the ones from meself.
I’ve talked to the git before,
waste of time, it is.
Oh the things I could say…
yeah, yeah
but would you listen?
I think there are two possibilities on these annoying blank emails (and yes, I’ve seen them too, though not recently).
One is that someone’s machine (not yours) is virus infected, but the virus is either partially blocked or just plain busted, so that the emails it’s trying to send out to propagate itself don’t work.
The other possibility is that someone somewhere is trying to use a script to send out spam emails, and did it wrong.
Either way, just delete it and go on.
–James
Thanks for this, James. 
I kind of thought it had nothing to with my machine, but then again, I’m not terribly savvy on computer issues. So when I received 4 of them in the span of a couple of days, I started to think there might be more to it all than I had thought.
there’s been a minor rash of 'em lately
it’s just bad spam software
some people can’t even…
crystal people
If you haven’t already done this, then try it…
The next time one comes in, DO NOT OPEN IT.
Right click on the email listing, and choose “Properties”.
This will open up a little window with two tabs, “General” and “Details”.
Pick “Details”.
This will tell you where any return email will initially go, what email address it came from (at least the latest stop on its travels) and if it was sent to you alone, or to several folks. Down at the bottom of the pane, you should see a button marked “Message Source”. Click on it, and you will see what the code in the email actually is.
If the parties sending are unknown to you, and the coding or message in the ‘message source’ section seem suspicious, then forward the email, as an attachment, to spam@uce.gov.
Good luck!
I hope it just turns out that someone’s cat keeps sitting on the keyboard at the ‘send’ command.
Maybe it’s supposed to be a spiritual message …
djm
so then maybe the tin foil hat would be a really good thing?
I so want one of those!!! I wonder if it comes in pink…