Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:15:39 -0500 From: Joseph <jolt@nicholasofmyra.org> To: Dave <mudman@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu> Cc: Brandon Harper <lists-inet@booms.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AntiVirus Replies [was: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL] Message-ID: <3BDEA7FB.2010506@nicholasofmyra.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110291459130.16136-100000@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3BDEA7FB.2010506>