On Wed, 28 May 2003 11:47:13 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2003 03:38:15 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> No, it is not thoughtful at all. How would you like it if you were >> to find your inbox flooded with hundreds of "bounced" messages that >> you didn't even send? > How would you like it if those infected messages got through and all the > people on your mailing list sent you messages calling you all kinds of > bastard for sending them an infected message? I don't send any infected messages to anyone. I have received some messages from people I don't even know and who call me all kinds of names for sending them messages that I never sent to them. Some of them even say that they have reported me to my ISP. It is an annoyance for me to receive emails accusing me of things I don't do. I don't respond to the complaints. I just delete them and forget them. It is probably also an annoyance for my ISP to receive complaints about me for things that I never did. I am sure that my ISP doesn't take the complaints seriously because I have never heard from my ISP about any of the complaints these jerks are filing against me. >> Wouldn't you have just preferred that the >> virus filters would have just simply deleted the nasty things and >> pronounced them dead on arrival? > Sure would. But do the virus filters catch ALL of the viruses? > Apparently not, for you go on to say this: >> I have received lots of viruses where the >> "From:" header gives the name and email address of an Arachne list >> member. I just delete the virus and I never inform the fellow list >> member about it because I have no reason to believe that the person >> named in the "From:" header is the culprit. > Well bully for you old chap! > But that shows that SOME viruses DO get through. Not everyone has the > expertise to be able to detect that a message is infected and be able to > delete the virus. It doesn't take any expertise to know that you should delete any and all attachments containing executable code and sent from an untrusted source. It doesn't take any expertise to delete a virus unless your machine gets infected. It doesn't take any expertise to prevent your machine from getting infected unless you are running Window$. People who lack the expertise to run Window$ properly ought to run a safe alternative and easy to use operating system instead. >>> Just as one of a countless number of possibilities, it could be that his >>> system is infecting his outgoing mail. If my system was doing that, I'd >>> certainly want to know about it, quick smart!!!! >> You can easily prevent your system from ever doing that simply by > Sure _I_ can do that. But AFAIK I am not having the problem of my system > infecting any outgoing messages. As far as you know . . . Wouldn't it be nice to know for *certain* that your system is not infecting any outgoing messages? If you are running Window$ you can never be certain of that. > OTOH a lot of my friends are (dare I say it?) M$idiots who can NOT do > what you suggest. And wouldn't even if they could. > Let's face it. We could argue these points forever, and it wouldn't > change the way the rest of the world works. > I see no point in continuing this discussion. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
