Anti-Virus Companies: Tenacious Spammers
Brian Martin,
Attrition,
Nov 23, 2004
Many schools, colleges and universities have installed anti-virus and anti-spam filters on their systems. As a popular target for such annoying emails, I am sympathetic with the need to block the garbage before it gets to unsuspecting users (especially those using Windows and Outlook, and hence could really be harmed by the messages). But as this item notes, these programs are worse spammers than the people they try to block. It's bad enough that I get a slew of these messages when I send a newsletter with a bad word in it. But I also get a continuous stream of notifications involving messages I have not sent, where the sender has simply used my email address to hide their identity. Administrators: turn off these notifications. They are worse than the actual spam - and sometimes even carry the viruses they are trying to screen.
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