From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e9d84ce06116c5ae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-27 19:32:21 PST Path: news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!216.166.71.14!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:32:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:32:25 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: [off-topic] open letter to ISP admins--and virus program vendors References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7decnax8Xfyp1euiXTWJig@gbronline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.53 X-Trace: sv3-eIeU3QX0mlr5wr9nnNc63xb+En0JWzmQeel+tsH/iwOAzMQVdG3o9vJJ9z082crnHd1Bn4KS0AhZtIG!cBo+FWH7AgR0y+1GflDNMA/Y15bCLh2hg7kVzemvtdqbe6Fx2e6apVLFM4ioKSe5YZbb0TrgOmwn X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:57 Date: 2003-09-27T21:32:25-05:00 List-Id: I just HAD to respond to a message that was dropped into my mailbox twice in one minute, since it is similar to numerous others I've received. If your ISP is sending messages of this sort, perhaps you'd like to help them get a clue. And if your virus program sends messages like this, perhaps you could help the program's vendor get a clue. ---------- > This e-mail is generated by the [note 1] mail > server to warn you that the e-mail [snip] is infected > with virus: HTML/IFrame_Exploit*. I had very little difficulty filtering out the hundreds of messages per day generated by the recent epidemic of this virus. I DO NOT APPRECIATE having the attack converted to hundreds of messages from ISPs bragging about how they protected me!!!! > Please contact the sender: very probably he/she doesn't > know he/she has a computer virus. It was YOUR customer that sent it--YOU contact them. Few of the recipients are aware that the apparent sender is most likely forged. You have just invited hundreds of virus recipients to drown this innocent bystander with angry e-mails. And if by some chance it is not forged, wouldn't a friendly PHONE CALL from their ISP be more effective than having them lose mail because hundreds of flames have used up their quota? ---------- note 1: ISP name withheld to protect the guilty