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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