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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:03:40 -0400
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] hardest hit ...
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:53:09PM +0200, Laura Creighton wrote:
> Well, I had the misfortune to once write a python PEP.  Now I am
> still getting 2 - 3 *thousand* of the things _every day_, and so
> are the other PEP writers I have spoken with.  Thank you, thank
> you Stephen R. van den Berg for procmail.  Never needed it more.
>
> I say we all get together, and make a class-action suit against
> Microsoft for writing operating systems that permit such nonsense.
> Write this up so that after we deduct our legal costs, we send all
> the money we are awarded to Amnesty International, or the Red Cross or
> something.

Hear Hear!  I'm not as bad off and a hacked copy of upas running on unix
is enough to let me reject the vast majority of the crud on the basis of
SHA1 hash alone, but still it is a real pisser to be wasting resources
on this much junk.