Re: Test mail

Jakob Østergaard (jakob@unthought.net)
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:25:42 +0200


On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 06:17:31PM +0200, christophe barbé wrote:
> Would it not be simple and effective to filter out mail produced by
> Outlook?

http://unthought.net/msworms.html

> It sounds to me the equivalent of RBL & co.
> RBL filter out mail from open relay used to spam us.
> NoOutlook filter out mail from poor software/OS used to propagate viruses.

Any agent could be vulnerable.

Discrimination is hardly a viable solution.

>
> I guess that 100% of incomming viruses in lkml come from a Outlook mailer.
> And for the last two ones I'm sure.

Life sucks get a helmet.

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