As the originator of the sig in question, you might be interested in the reasoning behind it: People get mail from me a lot, and so my name ends up in their Microsoft mail client's databases. These folk communicate with others in my circle of aquaintances, and when their machine sends out viruses to everyone with forged headers then many of the recipients will have seen my sig prior to the event. So far it seems to work.
Vik :v) On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 19:29, Michael wrote: > Hey Chris, > > I suppose some twerp on the list has already pointed this out to you, but, > your signature makes no sense. > > If a virus forges email headers from another person's machine, it won't > append your signature. Therefore, people will only see your signature when > it's not sent by such a virus. > > I like the idea of saying "hey this is a linux machine, I don't get > Viruses" though. Good advertisement, not strictly correct though ;-) > > Cheers, > Michael. > > > >-- > >Sincerely etc. > >Christopher Sawtell > > > >NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > >it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > >Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. -- This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
