point taken...
i failed to take the current situation into account because the few infected
emails i have received were marked as spam and flushed.
i liked the article and aside from the anti-windows message and the
pro-windows responses i must agree with you.
i am one of those outlook express users but i also have a Linux server that
performs all of the email filtering tasks necessary to avoid such
entanglements.
i also use windows virus scanning software on both my desktop machines and
my servers.
i use windows on the desktop because it provides a richer environment than X
and i can't afford a Mac just yet - 8^)
(don't forsake me - all of my servers are either Linux or BSD based)
thanks for the info,
thor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin 'Roblimo' Miller" <robin@roblimo.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 09:42
Subject: Re: [SLUG] wtf?
> thor_consulting@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >is this list working or not?
> >
> >i posted a reply to a question over 2 1/2 hours ago and it still hasn't
> >shown up
> >
>
> This may relate to the "funny emails" someone else wrote about. The
> Windows/Outlook people are slowing a lot of email servers to a crawl
> with their latest worm. Our (OSDN) corporate servers are seeing a major
> slowdown -- often hours -- because of all the damn bandwidth sucked up
> by the Windows people and their worms, plus the endles autoresponder
> messages their anti-virus programs bounce around that all include the
> original worm file.
>
> Our situation is especially bad since we have so many widely-published
> email addresses and are in so many address books. Many online
> journalists are reporting over 1000 daily sobigs -- and that's over and
> above the typical 500+ daily spams and press releases Web-published
> reporters get in the normal course of business.
>
> My take on the subject:
> http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/143258&tid=2
>
> - Robin
>
>
>
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