Re: Is Yahoo doing all it can to prevent the spread of viruses?
From: Robert Clark (rgregoryclark_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/13/03
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Date: 12 Oct 2003 18:09:17 -0700
I copied below the latest email to Yahoo on this issue. I think this
might be a feasible solution.
Bob Clark
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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 08:55:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Robert Clark" <*********@yahoo.com>
Subject: Another solution to the Sven virus problem.
To: abuse@yahoo.com, security@yahoo.com
Yahoo seems to be unwilling or unable to implement my
proposal for stemming the tide of Sven email overflow
by scanning all attachments for viruses before
delivery to users mailboxes.
Here's another suggestion that is easier (and
cheaper) to implement:
Yahoo is able to correctly direct most of the Sven
infected email to the Bulk Mail folder. I also have
filters in place that direct some of them to the Trash
folder.
Therefore in order to prevent the influx of Sven
emails causing the storage limits to be exceeded,
allow users to set how large either of these folders
is allowed to get.
Then when either folder grows larger than the
allowed size, delete messages from them starting with
the older ones first. You might also allow users the
option of transferring the older messages from the
Bulk folder to the Trash folder rather than directly
deleting them.
Bob Clark
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"cquirke (MVP Win9x)" <name.goes.here@nospam.iafrica.com> wrote in message news:<lrqfovkbr4nqjp6droaggp5dkjuugtj15n@4ax.com>...
> On 10 Oct 2003 14:00:54 -0700, rgregoryclark@yahoo.com (Robert Clark)
>
> > Among the free email providers there doesn't seem to be any that does
> >automatic screening for viruses.
>
> "Who will rid me of this turbulent spam?"
>
> > I say there is time for there to be one.
>
> I don't think they will, and here's why - maintaining such a facility
> is an ongoing committment, whether they do it in-house (spam) or but
> an off-the-peg solution from an av (malware) or whoever (spam).
>
> If they were to buy av, you can bet it wouldn't be one copy of F-Prot
> for DOS used "only for home use, honest!". The av would have in mind
> the number of users and the value it would add to the ISP, and if the
> ISP was silly enough not to recover the cost of that value, well,
> that's not the av vendor's problem. Think about it; if you were a
> wholesaler and one of your resellers wanted kit for free because he
> wasn't charging his client, what would you say?
>
> Protection against spam in particular is something identified (along
> with pr0n) as one of the few things ppl will pay for.
>
> Even Eudora 6 has got into that act - about the only big difference
> between 6 and 5.xx that I can see is anti-spam filtering. For the
> first time, there is a new feature present in Paid mode that is *not*
> provided in Sponsored mode. Can anyone guess what that feature is?
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