This should not surprise anyone on this list, but it does serve as
excellent confirmation of why simply filtering on the Subject: header to
attempt to block the Melissa virus (as in the Sendmail patch) was a bad
idea: mutations have already been discovered.
Details (though mostly intended for a general audience) at:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2233667,00.html
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
feature shock /n./
[from Alvin Toffler's book title "Future Shock"] A user's (or
programmer's!) confusion when confronted with a package that has too
many features and poor introductory material.
