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Re: Virus emails



On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:44:50PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.cx> was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows dijo [Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:10:57PM -0400]:
> > > And I insist... Do you want to stop every mail which is (peeking at my
> > > inbox) between 1887 and 2183 bytes long just because it might be a
> > > virus? 
> > 
> >   Um, those are line counts, not byte counts.  1889 lines is about 140k
> > on the one I just received.
> 
> Are they? hmmm... Ok, that weakens my statement ;-) But anyway, there
> are way too many 140K legitimate messages.

  Heh, good one :-)

  Daniel

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