On Thursday 27 November 2003 9:10 pm, Christoph Cordes wrote:
> BWA> You've got to be kidding. Did the user take the hint when you had
> BWA> trouble replying because you were laughing too hard?
>
> Why kidding? Just see it like this: The system doesnīt deliver a message
> that is adressed to a user. And as a matter of fact there are users that
> donīt like the idea to be patronized like this. And keep in mind that not
> everything that clam recognizes as a threat is one to everyone. Take BO2K
> for example - to me itīs a Backdoor - to someone else itīs a Remote
> administration tool. Or what about a "Joke-virus"?
Looked at from the other point of view, however, what justification can there
be for delivering such viruses to people (assuming the people are not
anti-virus researchers), because if you're running an anti-virus service for
them (and therefore presumably they're either your customers or else work for
the same company as you do), it's your job to cut out the viruses, not theirs
to want to play with them.
If people want to play with viruses, they shouldn't have an email account
which blocks them.
Antony
--
Programming is a Dark Art, and it will always be. The programmer is
fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe:
entropy and human stupidity. They're not things you can always
overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
- Damian Conway, Perl God
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