on Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:20:53AM +1000, Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au) wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:55, Adam McKenna wrote: > > > My own inbox supports this statement. 140 responses to Sobig.F mails, > > > of which 43 are virus or other content-based autoresponders, and 97 > > > being delivery failure messages or other autoresponders (e.g.: ISP help > > > desk). > > > > How many were challenges from mailing list software? Yes, another class of > > software that automatically issues challenges (specifically, to new > > subscriptions and to non-list members if the list is closed). So I guess > > you should also file bugs against majordomo, mailman, ezmlm-src, and any > > other mailing list managers that do this. > > The comparison to mailing list software makes no sense. > > I am prepared to put up with majordomo or mailman responses to virus > messages because it's for the greater good. Having a single unwanted > message go to me is much better than having that message being sent > out to each of the 10,000 people on a big mailing list! > > For challenge-response systems it's totally different. I don't want > to receive a single message because a lazy asshole wants to push all > his problems on other people. > > People who take the attitude of "Sobig wasn't a problem, my machine > just sent out 4000 challenge messages to random victims" can only be > described as lazy assholes. Karsten M. Self repeats the preceding allegations of the Complaint as if set forth here in full[1]. Mailing lists are a rather small subset of all mail recipients, though they may be overrepresented in address lists harvested by spammers. In addition, however, list software _should_ filter virus and spam mail prior to sending a "your message to foo list awaits moderation". Peace. -------------------- Notes: 1. Someone has been sending too much time reading legal docs. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? SCO vs IBM Linux lawsuit info: http://sco.iwethey.org
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