From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 29 8:44:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from webs1.accretive-networks.net (webs1.accretive-networks.net [207.246.154.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB0F37B401 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:44:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (davidk@localhost) by webs1.accretive-networks.net (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9TGiJu37537; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:44:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:44:19 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner X-X-Sender: To: Brett Glass Cc: Peter Pentchev , Nils Holland , , Subject: Re: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011029093339.045f1520@localhost> Message-ID: <20011029084203.K35308-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > IMHO, it's a good idea, when a worm has been broadcast to a list, to > inform the members of that list. In my personal experience, this has > saved a lot of people from being infected. YMMV, but I don't think that > the scanner's behavior was inappropriate. > > --Brett I'd agree if it was coming from an "official" source, like the FreeBSD.ORG mail server - however as it is now, any random mail server admin could set it up and start sending out these auto-responses. Sure it's just one or two a day now, but as the idea catches on it'll reach USENET-cancel-level proportions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message