Re: AntiVirus Replies [was: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL]
From: Joseph (jolt@nicholasofmyra.org)
Date: 10/30/01
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:15:39 -0500 From: Joseph <jolt@nicholasofmyra.org> To: Dave <mudman@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu>
I completely agree with Dave on this with one addition. When one signs
up for a list, they shouldn't trust the emails coming in anyway. Who
knows who is going to send what. Everyone on the list "should" have an
anti-virus package installed or they are asking for trouble anyway. So,
if a virus goes through the system, everyone should already know about
it. We don't need an additional message (or even 250 messages) telling
us what we already know.
Dave wrote:
>
>There is a performance hit that is latent that you are not looking at.
>Since most of us are computer people, we get into the habit of analyzing
>efficiency issues with *computers*. But what about all the human time
>spent deleting all those autoresponses?
>
>Although it was pointed out that not *everyone* is using auto-responders,
>if we assume the list was large enough that any given small percentage of
>subscribers have scanners, would could presumabably get the proverbial 250
>auto-responders going off. (And if you just won't believe it, we may
>assume the virus sender may cc every list available on FreeBSD.org, from
>freebsd-questions to hardware to security. Many of us subscribe to more
>than one list, and presumably, some autoresponding machines as well)
>
>If you are lucky enough to not being using a GUI like a Yahoo! mail
>account, you can probably delete their mess pretty fast (esp in Pine).
>But then we have to ask ourselves, do we just want to hold down the
>delete-key for 250 seconds everytime some joker wants to drop a virus off
>to a list?
>
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