Re: MEI Whitelist Autoresponse
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.
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