[CrackMonkey] you have a statistical sampling problem here.

[Tom Gilbert]

* Don Marti (dmarti at zgp.org) wrote:
> begin  Tom Gilbert quotation of Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 05:26:56PM +0000:
> 
> > Would it be reasonable for them to send him specially formatted HTML
> > mail that can only be read in Outlook, or to perhaps attach the content
> > of their message in a Word document, and then when he complains about
> > not being able to read them in his client/OS, demand that he switch to
> > using Windows because his client is clearly deficient?
> 
> Just because one side does it doesn't justify the other side doing
> it.  You shouldn't flood Microsoft web servers with bogus requests
> just because a Microsoft IIS worm does it to you.
> 
> And you shouldn't do harm to other people's systems just to show that
> they're vulnerable.
> 
> But in this case the harm caused (inability to read some breathless
> fanboy blithering about "Tron" without installing some easily
> available software) is much less than the information gained

Ah so it's justifiable by degree? Deliberately rendering mail
undreadable isn't as bad as harming someone's system, so it's okay? You
can, therefore you should?


> (your mailer is vulnerable to "attachments" your virus checker
> won't block).

So put that last line in your .sig and stop being an ass :)p

Tom.
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