On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Peter Sergeant wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:24:56PM +0100, Peter Sergeant wrote: > > > > Which suggests that one approach would be to create such demand. Or at > > least the appearance of such demand. Maybe we should all start making > > requests to sales departments: > > > > "Hi, I was evaluating AV products for purchase. I notice that while > > many are capable of warnings the senders of infected e-mail, it > > seems that some are unable to distinguish viruses that fake the > > sender address, and so send out warnings to innocent third parties. > > I don't want to be the victim of a defamation case from such a third > > party, so can you assure me that your product can distinguish such > > viruses, and differentiate its actions based on the virus type?" > > An excellent idea. And far better than writing rants to mailing-lists > about the issue :-)
On the other hand, the point of the suggestion is for people to do this en masse. If he did this in isolation, it would be hard for that to happen spontaneously; maybe communication with like-minded others isn't so bad. Nah, what am I thinking, cynical sniping is more fun. You dork, Nicholas! :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/ massively parallel, adj. 1 Hypergeometry (Of two right lines) nonintersecting and many megaparsecs apart even at the point at infinity. 2 (Of a computer architecture) employing 2^N microprocessors where N depends on Intel's current discount structure; esp. of a system massively searching for parallel advances in the programming arts. Compare MASSIVELY SERIAL. -- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
