Please don't remove sender's email addresses.
By hiding the personal email of the sender, it guarantees that
all replies (personal, flames, and otherwise) go to the whole list
and generates massive amounts of extra traffic.
I've been through that with other email lists, and have ended up
leaving the lists because there was just too much to wade through.
I'd much rather filter out the occasional virus header and let Norton
do its job then to have the value of useful things eclipsed by
Draconian measures which trade daily usefulness for (questionable)
measures designed to stop occasional inconveniences.
Greg
At 07:18 AM 8/28/2003 -0500, Ed Burkhead wrote:
Tom,
Though its too late for this infection, may I make this suggestion for the future?
Its been nice on these lists to click reply and have the message pop up to reply only to the sender. This allows private responses to go directly to the original messages sender without making 350+ people read it. Then, if its a reply of general interest, we have to actively add the list address.
After a week of 100-300 virus laden messages a day, I think Id like to make this suggestion and request. Would you please see if your list software can hide the senderse-mail address or (even better) make the address un-machine readable? The reply-to would be the list.
Though the current method has its conveniences, the danger (in these virus laden times) may merit a change in our procedures.
Thanks for considering this, Tom.
To those list members who still dont have an anti-virus program,
I think that participation in groups like this includes an ethical responsibility to protect your computer with an effective antivirus program. By protecting yourself, you protect all of us from attacks like were now receiving from one or more of your computers.
Though Im protected against the current (and I hope future) viruses, Im now having to spend valuable time each day identifying and deleting the hundreds of bogus virus-laden e-mails Im receiving.
For lists like this to work, we need for each of you to protect your computer and the addresses in your address book and saved e-mails.
As soon the list member who is infected cleans up his/her computer, those of us under attack may be able to get back to full use of ours.
Thanks.
Ed Burkhead
http://edburkhead.com/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the XXX)
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