[Spambayes] Virus / Spam / THANK YOU

[Tim Stone]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:26:52 -0800, LAROSE,BRIAN (HP-USA,ex1) 
<brian.larose at hp.com> wrote:

> Bayes Friends,
>
> I'm afraid to open this goofy zip attachment, I've been getting a lot of
> virus/spam directed at the SPAMBayes LIST itself.  This is interesting, I
> wonder if the spammers are trying to take out this open source effort by
> hitting at the heart of a solution.

Mailing lists are very common targets for spammers.  Also, they get into 
people's address books quite regularly, and so end up getting lots of 
email viruses sent to 'em.  Your anti-spam software should be nailing the 
virus stuff as it enters your computer...

>  This will result in an arms race and I
> know WE WILL WIN.  Am I right about this looking suspicious?

Yes.

>
> By the way, I tried SpamBayes for the past 2 weeks and found it to be the
> single best software product that I have EVER used in 20 years in the IT
> business.

Woah, that's saying something! (I presume...)

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