RE: Virus again

It's not a list privacy violation.  At least it might not be.  The problem is that you can get pretty much any email address (not all, but most) just by reading the sig lines.  Others can be found by hitting reply and microsoft mail will put that in the reply footer.  Also, harvesting from a list is pretty easy, just look for @ in the body of the message and grab the line.  A quick scan will show which are email addresses and which are not.  Delete the junk lines and you have a directory.  I am not sure, but I believe the list was locked down so the subscriber list is not available.  However, for those that publish, there are no good protections that I know of. 

--Chris
Chris.Bowes_at_Kosa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lyudah [mailto:lyudah_at_home.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:01 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Virus again

Yes, no e-mail from the list contains virus.  The case is even worse:  he is not attacking the list;  he attacks us(users of the list) personally one by one.  There is definately an association between this list and the person speading the virus because virus comes as a reply to the list posts.   I'd like to ask a question:  are our e-mail addresses widely available to anyone and there is nothing we can do about it?  I had an impression it wasn't the case.  I would call it privacy violation(very strong statement, probably too strong) or using technical list to do his durty business(more applicable to the situation).  From now on I will think twice before signing up for another list, posting messages, or replying to them.  Yes, you're right I would not block my customers or friends e-mails because people who have any respect for themselves would clean their machine up after becoming aware of the virus. The problem here is that person has been notified by number of people and he keeps doing it.  So, regardless on us individually blocking his e-mails we need to get to the root of this problem and BLOCK that person's access to the list.  It becomes clear he is doing it deliberatly. Or you would say: 'Let him do it?'  That would not be a good sign.... ----- Original Message -----
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:21 PM

> > The boys in network admin initially said they would "strip" the
virus-now
> > they have said that they are going to block email from the list.
>
> The boys  in network admin may be barking up the wrong tree.  As I
> understand it, no email from the list contains a virus.
>
> Even if the virus did come from the list, what kind of solution is this?
If
> someone from your accounting department sends you an email that has a
virus
> are they going to block all email from accounting?  If a customer sends an
> email with a virus are they going to block all email from customers?
>
>
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