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Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Feb 25 14:17:27 2009

To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:44:13 PST."
	<49A5917D.8080301@gmail.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:17:14 -0500
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:44:13 PST, JC Dill said:

> Universities are often major sources of spam.  Spam is sent directly 
> from virus-infected student computers, 

Got any numbers to back up the claim that virus-infected student computers
are anywhere near the problem that virus-infected student's-parents computers
are?

(I'm not saying universities are perfect - we have to nuke several users
a day because their accounts or machines fall under enemy control.  But I
see a lot of people repeating the meme without any numbers to back it up)

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