Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 03:30 schrieb Antiphon: > I don't have any faith in anti-spam legislation. There's no way laws can > stop spam. It's like pornography, religions, drugs and guns. The more you > try to regulate it, the less you'll succeed at stopping it. Spam is a > problem created by technology that can only be solved by it.
Hm. Not really... it's more a social problem. Too many people react to Spam by buying the fscking product. Of course Mail Virii are a different problem, which is being called Microsoft Outbreak or similar... By the way, why the hell do some stupid admins filter virii out of mails and _send_ the rest of that Virus Distribution Mail? Those are nearly the only mails dropping through my SpamAssassin / ClamAV combination and going into my inbox :(( PS: Now it's 600 MB of that one damned virus in 14 days, that's really really a dimension I've never seen before in my personal mail account. Without filters, I'd have gone mad clicking through M$ update fakes on my linux box. Could it just be the programmer of that virus did the whole thing to annoy us Linux users? (Just to make this thing seem on-topic for this list) Or is that thing on the run like no virus has ever been before? I wish it would be like ICQ... my years old ICQ number has seven digits and as it seems all ICQ SPAM senders start sending at higher numbers :) -- Thomas Ritter "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin