Re: MyDoom, Sorbig - Actions taken?

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 01:29:37 EST, Hector Santos said:

> Rather to being so condescending, why don't you explain how layering when
> adhered by the MUA will solve the problem of abusive transportation of
> viruses.   You are bent of this being an USER/MUA problem maybe that's
> because you are currently focus on "User needs."   Well,  I disagree.  You
> still have not address the question when MIME is not used for attachment
> transportation via SMTP.
First off, the 'begin 644 foo.tar' went out of style a decade ago.

Secondly, even when it was in use, there were MUAs that would automatically
extract a uuencode - but none that I know of was ever silly enough to
extract-and-run.

And you know what?  If the MUAs aren't supporting extract-and-run,
either MIME, or UUENCODE, or even encoded as a Lisp S-expr, then it
*doesn't matter* what the SMTP layer is doing.

Go back and ponder.  Firestone. Speed limits.  That's what you're asking for.
When you realize that tire problems have to be fixed *at the tire*,
then maybe you'll be able to contribute.

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