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Whenever I hear about some email bug or another that is supposedly raging across the universe, I observe the same phenomenon. The Exchange-based corporate networks I have accounts on are swamped to the point of near-unusability, at least until their virus definition strings are updated, primarily by users on these networks opening attachments indiscriminately, despite being warned almost continuously by IT departments not to do so. The free-email service I use for disposable communications (this account is ordinarily spammed mercilessly, of course, as I’ve used the address on Usenet and in web forms everywhere) attracts a few copies of the virus du jour, almost certainly from spammers’ machines that have been infected.

Most interestingly, the third category of accounts, the locally hosted ones I maintain myself and which I use for most of my personal mail (both formal and informal) almost never get any copies of these viruses. From this, I can only draw one conclusion: my close associates (personal and professional) who have these addresses in their address books aren’t morons. Cool. I love all y’all (but not I Love You, which would be the subject line of a message you’d probably receive from me if I were a moron.)

:: Dave Walker 08:39 (EST/EDT) [+]

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