On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:29:33 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

dave weil wrote:

No, it's common courtesy to inform someone if their computer is
sending out virused messages because often times they don't even know
it and so they don't know that they have a virus on their machine.

Yes, via private email not public humiliation.

It's not humiliation to post such a message. After all, the last thing
that anyone should do really is to send an email with your address on
it to a possibly virused computer. While nothing might happen, why
tempt fate?

You seem to be the only who's interpreting this as humilation.
Everyone else realizes that he was doing a public service, not only
for Paul, but to others that might have gotten virused mail from
Paul's computer. This is almost SOP these days - when you get a
virused email from someone active on a mailing list or group, you
normally notify the whole group, for the above reasons.

However, in the current world situation, it is virtually a certainty that
the apparent source of a virus or spam email is not the actual source.

That is certainly a big possibility. But why take chances?

In any case, you should take a chill pill, because it's obvious that
Paul wasn't trying to humiliate the other Paul.