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| I don't disagree with you. While I am extremely hesitant to agree to | any type of automated filtering (be it spam or virus), I do agree that | broadcasting virus messages to a large subscriber base is a bad idea (if | for the bandwidth consumption alone).
Agreed. I do not like filtering and censorship much myself, believe it or not. :/
| However, I just took a look at my inbox, and have determined that the | vast majority of virus messages I have received in the last month were | not sent to the list. The messages were sent directly to me. Based on | my mail configuration, I can tell that the viruses stole my email | address from some source related to the lists (web mail archives, | old emails in peoples' inboxes), but the messages weren't generally sent | through the list itself.
I also agree that most viruses I get are not from the list, but searching the list's archive for subject lines with the word "thanks" alone show that this problem is indeed real.
Sending these 20-100K viruses to thousands of users, whether twice a day or once a week, is a lot of bandwidth indeed.
Our courteous list managers run the list and pay for the bandwidth, surely this argument makes sense to support my opinion.
| Perhaps in the future we will see a rash of viruses hit the list, but | right now, it isn't the list maintainers' problem.
This is where we disagree, but I respect your view. I interpret it differently, but that's my issue.
Why not be prepared anyway, if I was to agree with you on this?
Thank you for your civil and detailed reply. But I am afraid that on how we see things, we are mostly going to have to agree to disagree.
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