>>>>> "Suresh" == Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Suresh> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raju Mathur) writes:
>> Please refrain from sending virus-like attachments to the
>> list, even as a joke. Your mail hasn't reached hundreds of LIH
>> subscribers due to containment by anti-virus tools, and at
>> least one person has unsubscribed under the impression that the
>> list sent him a virus.
Suresh> Raju - I'd say this warning is definitely not on.
Suresh> I haven't seen objections to this in most lists
Suresh> around... ditto with stuff like using begin 666 your mail
Suresh> client is broken as an attribution line.
Suresh> Stuff like this is meant to highlight broken behavior in
Suresh> mail tools / "antivirus" programs.
Suresh> So fine - mailman's system should handle it ok I guess.
Mailman handles it just fine: it's not an attachment anyway.
Suresh> As for those who unsubscribe because they mistake this for
Suresh> a virus ... pity, but this is kind of darwinian evolution
Suresh> in action.
Well, I can see your point of view, but try to understand mine too: my
mandate is to get the mail to as many members as possible, and if a
significant percentage of the members miss the message it detracts
from the usefulness of the list. I agree that it is broken anti-virus
and mail clients that are responsible for this; I also agree that they
should be fixed. However, I do not agree that Devdas and I should
receive 100 e-mails from corporate mail servers whenever someone on
the list is feeling feisty. I also don't agree that this is the right
method of getting the message across to the users and administrators
of those packages -- the users at least never even see the message.
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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