On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:21, Dan Rasmussen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:14:38PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > An E-mail from <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org> to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
> > with subject
> > Re: Application has been intercepted. The virus W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
> 
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