Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:07:20 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: System Anti-Virus Administrator <root@interbgc.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus found in received message "new" Message-ID: <20010730100720.A314@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010730120907.40504.qmail@ns1.interbgc.com>; from root@interbgc.com on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:09:07PM -0000 References: <20010730120907.40504.qmail@ns1.interbgc.com>
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--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:09:07PM -0000, System Anti-Virus Administrator w= rote: >=20 > Attention: doc@FreeBSD.org >=20 > [A message has been sent to the originator, stating there is a virus > in the Email they just sent to you. No further action is required on > your part.] Please do not send these types of notifications. While they may seem helpful at first glance, they can end up wasting much more bandwidth then the origional virus. I once saw ten responces to a single virus mailing to a list. Unfortunatly, that list has over 50,000 subscribers so half a million messages were sent. Since most of the recipients didn't use an affected mailer virtualy all that traffic was simply wasted. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ZZRHXY6L6fI4GtQRAm3gAKDOsYGidovs1jmVWqIp0vK1rk53+gCcCx3V p85VOADhmVT6HFCRoO1VkMk= =pX9B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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