RE: Our Own Worst Enemy?

[Ilan Shacham <ilans@xxxxxxx>]

True, But if the list engine included virus checking BEFORE sending
the message to everyone in the list, we could solve this whole
problem.

Ilan

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Bartoletti [mailto:azb@llnl.gov]
Sent: יום שני 18 דצמבר 2000 21:41
To: ietf-pkix@imc.org
Subject: Our Own Worst Enemy?


This is fascinating, and just a bit depressing.

Simply email a virus to a public email discussion list, and watch it 
transform into a mailbox-choking spam attack as every subscribing 
organization's virus scanners echo their warnings back to the list.

:(

___tony___


Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 <azb@llnl.gov>
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900