On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:21, Dan Rasmussen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:14:38PM +0000, virusalert@baan.com wrote: > > An E-mail from <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org> to <RvdOever@baan.nl> with subject > > Re: Application has been intercepted. The virus W32/Sobig.c@MM in attachment > > your_details.zip has been detected. > > Quick question, why do I always receive emails like this? It seems that > if the virus has been intercepted, there is no need for me to know about > it... is this advertising for their antivirus scanner, or something > designed to make virus authors all proud when they do a search and their > virus comes up in mailing list archives and they can see how far their > work spread? it's not designed for mailing lists, but rather for an individual user, who has gotten a virus. That being said, it also means that d-l@l.d.o really needs to crack down on what can be sent to the list. If that means that we need to make it subscriber only, I don't see what's so bad about that :) Jason > Dan > > -- > Dan Rasmussen > Jabber: dhrasmus@charente.de > Don't forget to submit to your corporate masters, and believe unquestioningly everything the media tells you. -- ############################################################################# # Jason Straw - misato@misato.us - Freenode and GOVIA, Media for the Future # # Freenode Radio -- Webmaster, Head Engineer # # Freenode IRC -- staff member (nick misato) # # OSEF -- Project Impresario of GOVIA # # GPG Key ID -- pgp.mit.edu -- D662C649 # # jstraw@wopn.org is being deprecated please begin using misato@misato.us # #############################################################################
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