On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:44:31PM +1200, cr wrote:
| On Thursday 21 August 2003 03:54, AP_EmailAlert@ap.org wrote:
[a bunch of hogwash]
| Is it just me, or is there something *really dumb* about alerting the
| purported sender of a virus that spoofs the origin line? <vbg>
It's not just you.
| ... recipient of at least 80 of this sort of message yesterday :(
Yeah, a lot of people are.
Wouldn't it be somewhat amusing to set up an autoresponder that
notifes the (other) autoresponders that their autoresponses are not
appreciated? I wonder how many windows machines can be crashed like
that ...
(naturally set that up on a separate site so the autoresonder wars
don't DoS your real mail)
-D
--
Yes, Java is so bulletproofed that to a C programmer it feels like being in a
straightjacket, but it's a really comfy and warm straightjacket, and the world
would be a safer place if everyone was straightjacketed most of the time.
-- Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes
http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/
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