Yes, send-pr results in virus emails

[Brandon D. Valentine]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:58:20PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> 
>   I don't think there need be any more doubt that PRs are being
> forwarded to virus-infected clients.

I'm afraid there's not much that FreeBSD can do about this.  All PRs are
forwarded to the public freebsd-bugs mailing list and on any public
mailing list there are inevitably n > 1 Microsoft clients subscribed.

When using send-pr please always set the email address in the originator
field to a fully qualified address at which you will actively read mail
now and in the future.  Filing a PR from a throwaway address on a box
you are using to test mail server software might mean that in the future
when that machine and that email address are gone, someone going through
the PR database with a similiar problem will not be able to contact you
to ask about your solution.  If you are reading responses to your PRs at
your standard email address, just train your Bayesian spam filter to
throw away virus emails and you'll never even know you're receiving
them.

Virus emails are an unfortunate fact of life on the big bad internet,
you'd better get used to them.

HTH,

Brandon D. Valentine
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