A virusscanner is now active on this mailing list

Harald Tveit Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Fri Mar 19 18:48:59 CET 2004


It seems that the ietf-types list is not only a favourite target of 
spammers, it is also a favourite target for virii :-(

After the recent slew of virii that were successfully faking the sender 
address and getting through to the list, I have finally knuckled under and 
installed a virus scanner on the host that is hosting the mailing list.

So all recognized virii will now be sent to /dev/null - and anyone who 
attaches an .exe file to the list will receive a nastygram from the 
virusscanner, and NOT get their mail sent to the list.

Hope this makes your lives a little easier..... take care!

                      Harald




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