full-disclosure - viruses being sent to this list

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Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.58.0403241345530.11476@dave.horsfall.org>
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: viruses being sent to this list

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> > Because I'd take stupidity over malice any day; it's much more abundant.
> >
> Depending upon who you ask, 100% of the people in the world are stupid.
> Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder.  It actually *is* possible to
> approach people with the assumption that they have some intellect and allow
> them to prove otherwise, but it seems most people prefer to assume
> stupidity from the outset.  Which seems pretty stupid to me.  ;-)

Viruses don't post themselves to mailing lists, so at least one person's
actions were dubious.  We are now ascertaining whether it was through
malice or stupidity.

-- Dave