Hum, i assume Mozilla under Linux has the user's privileges...
Therefore if you run as root, if there's a security hole, too bad for you...
After all, Linux documentation tells us to avoid at all cost using root account except in special situations. The same probably apply to Windows too, so if you run IE under a low-level account, and it takes your privileges, that's ok.
Now of course maybe IE runs at a high level privilege whatever user you're logged in as (haven't checked).
Well yes, but now you run in the horrible paradoxal loop !!
Suppose MS say that they shouldn't be trusted. Assume you think it's right, so you don't trust'em, so you believe THAT sentence is false ! Therefore MS should be trusted. So of course you must trust'em, and believe they shouldn't trusted... And so on & on !
Finally their claim is just another way to make your system / brain crash due to stack overflow...
LOL, want'em to forward every new spam they receive ? Don't you have enough already ? ^_^
Seriously, this sounds like a great idea.
I can see a few technical troubles to catalog spam, though. Most obvious is that usually spam is personalized, that is the recipient's mail address (or part of it) often appears either in the subject or in the body. So will this archive store every variant of every spam, or just a 'global' model ? Also need to define how catalog tools are supposed to access the archive, ie: grab from url ? ftp text file ?
And in any case, until spam filters are hooked directly on the smtp mail server itself, users will still have to take the time to configure their anti-spam tool, launch it regularly to clean the mailbox, and so on...
For instance Mozilla will incorpore spam filters, but from what i got you'll still have to download that freaking spam before it gets filtered, which can take some time if those are big spams (like viruses or such).
Ok, it sure beats having legitimate mails removed from the server without our knowledge...
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Hum, i assume Mozilla under Linux has the user's privileges...
Therefore if you run as root, if there's a security hole, too bad for you...
After all, Linux documentation tells us to avoid at all cost using root account except in special situations. The same probably apply to Windows too, so if you run IE under a low-level account, and it takes your privileges, that's ok.
Now of course maybe IE runs at a high level privilege whatever user you're logged in as (haven't checked).
Well yes, but now you run in the horrible paradoxal loop !!
Suppose MS say that they shouldn't be trusted. Assume you think it's right, so you don't trust'em, so you believe THAT sentence is false ! Therefore MS should be trusted. So of course you must trust'em, and believe they shouldn't trusted... And so on & on !
Finally their claim is just another way to make your system / brain crash due to stack overflow...
And get cataloged as spam senders ?
Would be easy for'em to catalog their own spam, though !
LOL, want'em to forward every new spam they receive ?
Don't you have enough already ? ^_^
Seriously, this sounds like a great idea.
I can see a few technical troubles to catalog spam, though.
Most obvious is that usually spam is personalized, that is the recipient's mail address (or part of it) often appears either in the subject or in the body. So will this archive store every variant of every spam, or just a 'global' model ?
Also need to define how catalog tools are supposed to access the archive, ie: grab from url ? ftp text file ?
And in any case, until spam filters are hooked directly on the smtp mail server itself, users will still have to take the time to configure their anti-spam tool, launch it regularly to clean the mailbox, and so on...
For instance Mozilla will incorpore spam filters, but from what i got you'll still have to download that freaking spam before it gets filtered, which can take some time if those are big spams (like viruses or such).
Ok, it sure beats having legitimate mails removed from the server without our knowledge...
Just my 2 cents of euro.