[MPlayer-dev-eng] URGENT ASSISTANCE

Colin Leroy colin at colino.net
Tue Sep 17 02:07:17 CEST 2002


On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:01:34 -0400 D Richard Felker III
<dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

Hi,

> > > What about klez and other source-forging virii?
> > Everyone using vuln mailers and no mailscanner soft deservers to be
> > banned!
>
> Umm, I don't think you understand. If some idiot who's ever sent email
> to you, or received email from you, runs one of these dumb viruses, it
> randomly picks a fake source address to remail itself out as, and it
> can *and will* sometimes pick your address.

What about banning "X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook.*" ? ;-)

-- 
Colin
"Free software is not widely used because people prefer to have 
 something to plug'n'play and not something to configure'n'work."
 - Pier Luca



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