From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 30 5:16: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.all.org (bdsl.66.12.117.154.gte.net [66.12.117.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D47B37B405 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:16:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3BDEA7FB.2010506@nicholasofmyra.org> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:15:39 -0500 From: Joseph MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Cc: Brandon Harper , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AntiVirus Replies [was: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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? > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message