Re: MS mail bombs
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 03:59:53PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:22:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:39:51PM +0800, csj wrote:
> > > Why not? Mailfilter has a log feature of varying degrees of
> > > verbosity. So if I accidentally delete a notice saying "Subject:
> > > Congratulations: You've just won a million $$", I could always ask the
> > > sender to resend it. Any email which can't be resent (or isn't
> > > archived somewhere) isn't worth reading. This goes for love letters
> > > and subpoenas.
> >
> > I don't know - I can't imagine being very popular if I tried to tell my
> > girlfriend "sorry, I thought your e-mail was spam so I deleted it" in
> > response to a declaration of undying passion. I don't choose who I go
> > out with based on how careful they are with their e-mail. :P
>
> ...so you'd be prepared for her to accidentally forward your own
> declaration of undying passion to debian-user by mistake? :-)
I think there's something of a difference in degree of carelessness
there :)
(Actually, depending on the content, it might not upset me a great deal.
But my attitude to relationships is definitely off-topic for -user ...)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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