Virus rejects on bug-gcc and help-gcc

[Mike Stump]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 04:58 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 95+% of what I have gotten the past few days is trash.

Automated replies to email based upon any contents of the email message 
that are not authenticated appear to be, uhm, wrong.  Personally, I've 
been putting more and more of these systems on my spam list and just 
filtering it all into the trashbin.  :-(

The reason why a human is necessary is, when they get 100 new messages 
that that they've never seen before, a human isn't going to send out 
100s of emails, but a program happily will.  The antivirus email reply 
programs are as bad as spammers, as, they _know_ that the email is 
forged, with 100% certainty, and they _still_ send out email to the 
innocent person.  This is why, it is reasonable to just put them all 
into a spam blocking list.

The days of running unprotected email boxes, is basically over.  Train 
your filter to junk all the trash, and presto, it'll be (mostly) clean 
again.

:-(