Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > [First, I apologize for starting this on the list; I meant to reply off the > list] > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Scott Long wrote: > > > I believe his suggestion was in order to improve quality-of-life on this > > list, not to solve his own problems. I do not enjoy receiving VBS > > viruses, regardless of my platform. They waste list bandwidth in the > > same way you are suggesting that he is wasting it. > > If someone misconfigures their system to loop the list, we unsub them. If > their system is misconfigured to spam the list (with viruses or > otherwise) we should do nothing different. You are suggesting that the fact that the offender has an address book is a "misconfiguration". The only way to "correctly configure" a Windows system so that VBS viruses cannot take advantage of the address book is to have no address book at all. Or to remove the entry for linux-*@vger.rutgers.edu from the address book. Disabling the scripting host is not always a viable option. The argument that "the user is stupid because he double-clicked a file ending with .SHS" is no good, since Windows tends to hide that extension from the user, who ends up seeing "LIFE-STAGES.TXT" instead of "LIFE-STAGES.TXT.SHS". At any rate I apologize for contributing to the continuation of this wasteful thread. I'll shut up. Regards, Scott - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
