A Favor

[Fridrik Skulason]

> Recently a couple of messages have come in without a subject.  Since this is a
> favorite way by some to spread virusus

Eh, keep in mind that under any sensibly configured mail reader, a message
containing a virus will not infect your system, unless you specifically
open/execute the attachment - just reading the text part of the mail will
*normally* not present any risk, and this applies regardless of whether the
message has a subject line.  (There are sertain loopholes in Outlook and
cc:Mail that a virus can use to automatically get itself executed under
certain conditions, but a discussion of that is a bit outside the subjects
of this mailing list).

On the other hand, not including a subject line is considered rather impolite
by some people, so I second the suggestion that people try to use a
descriptive subject line.

-frisk