Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:47:57 -0600 From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com> To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yes, send-pr results in virus emails Message-ID: <20040127194757.GV16440@geekpunk.net> In-Reply-To: <20040126135820.E20430@tikitechnologies.com> References: <20040126135820.E20430@tikitechnologies.com>
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:58:20PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > > I don't think there need be any more doubt that PRs are being > forwarded to virus-infected clients. I'm afraid there's not much that FreeBSD can do about this. All PRs are forwarded to the public freebsd-bugs mailing list and on any public mailing list there are inevitably n > 1 Microsoft clients subscribed. When using send-pr please always set the email address in the originator field to a fully qualified address at which you will actively read mail now and in the future. Filing a PR from a throwaway address on a box you are using to test mail server software might mean that in the future when that machine and that email address are gone, someone going through the PR database with a similiar problem will not be able to contact you to ask about your solution. If you are reading responses to your PRs at your standard email address, just train your Bayesian spam filter to throw away virus emails and you'll never even know you're receiving them. Virus emails are an unfortunate fact of life on the big bad internet, you'd better get used to them. HTH, Brandon D. Valentine -- brandon@dvalentine.com http://www.geekpunk.net Pseudo-Random Googlism: texas is bigger than it used to be
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