[Scspamcop] Re: Spam with spamcop ref

[Twayne]

> In article <gg1b8g$1nj$1 at news.spamcop.net>, Twayne
> <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> writes
>> HI,
>>
>> Probably of no consequence; I mention it only in the event that it
>> means anything to anyone here at SC.
>>
>> The following tracker
>> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z2413112474z3658d91fba5acecdc5dd6a5bcd3c7f39z
>>
>> has as its subject line "You have 11 unread message" in it.
>>
>> 1.
> [snip]
>>
>> 2.  The previous e-mail spam submission I just checked, WAS 11 spams,
>> and the return did have the ... "11 unread..." sentence in it.
>>
>
>        I have heard of anti-virus software - Norton, etc. - corrupting
> subject lines. Some kind of timing, buffering problem maybe?

 I've heard that OE used to be able to do that sort of thng, but it's 
supposedly been "fixed".  Who knows?  I've never heard of any mainstram 
AV doing it though.

>
>        I can't really see the point of running anti-virus checks on
> incoming and outgoing e-mail. The virus database may be updated
> between receipt of an e-mail and the opening of it, hence being more
> current. As for outgoing e-mail, if your system is clean, you would
> not be sending a virus - except in the case of forwarding an
> attachment without examining it first.

Nope; I don't run AV on emails in or out.  Way back when I had issues 
with AV on outgoing mails, but never an incoming.  Anyway email scans 
are turned off.  Not too sure how you got onto AV here.
>
>        Note that my e-mail client, Turnpike, holds e-mail in an
> encrypted database, so there is no point in running anti-virus against
> it in its entirety. Only when I read an e-mail and open an attachment
> is the checking invoked.

Ymmv there; seems like that's about the same as ignoring the mail scans 
and catching it later if/when it spawns.  Not sure I see what it has to 
do with the subject at hand.  I have no problem; that was simply an FYI 
in case it meant anything to anyone at SC.