RE: [afnog] Re: W32.Sobig.E at mm

[George Murage <George.Murage at comtech.co.ke>]

Ok, you've made your point. Everyone on this list should protect their own
system. 

However, what if I assert that all email viruses I have received this last 3
months have been from this list and not others. 

Doing something about viruses sent to this list is no different than
prohibiting spam, inflammatory emails and the like from being distributed to
this list. (Or am I am being terribly naïve here! Is this a
post-anything-you-like list?) 

Such guidelines help maintain order in the list and ensure that only
meaningful and relevant discussion goes on. Why should viruses on this list
be excluded? I think that is what Mark was alluding to. The list Admin
should at least do something about it. 

IMHO, I think you are turning a blind eye to the flip side of the coin.

-George Murage




-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler at pobox.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:16 PM
To: Mark Tinka
Cc: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: [afnog] Re: W32.Sobig.E at mm

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:53:03PM +0300, Mark Tinka wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:12:03PM +0300, Mark Tinka wrote:
> >> Maybe if a list member decided to withdraw his subscription to the
> >> list, on account of the uol.co.ug MX being a virus gateway, how much
> >> intellectual benefit has been lost on that account?
> > 
> > Very little, since they clearly have no clue.
> 
> Mmmm, how list-centric!

You gave a hypothetical situation: list member X decides to remove his/her
subscription from this list *because* he/she received a virus through it.

In that hypothetical situation, I assert that if X does not have enough clue
to realise that he/she needs virus protection on their own machine, not on
the mailing lists that they are subscribed to, then they are not very
technical.

I do not think that there is anyone who falls into category X on this list,
incidentally.

> However, list users can look at the bigger picture, and perhaps not expect
> the list to check their e-mail, but rather, install anti-virus scanners on
> their computers and/or MX gateways.

Absolutely. That was the point I was trying to make in the first place:
protect your own system. The benefit of having mail from uol.co.ug scan your
afnog mail is minimal, when most of your incoming mail comes from other
sources anyway.

Cheers,

Brian.
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