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Re: virus scanners....

To: null at www dot dyn dot national dot com dot au
Subject: Re: virus scanners....
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:06:40 +0100
Cc: crossgcc at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
References: <20010723152818.G22903@webjump.national.com.au>

Enno Davids wrote:
> 
> Ordinarily I just quietly ask the one or two perpetrators, but clearly...
> 
> Can all you clowns configure your virus scanners to NOT spam the list when
> they find something.... And I wouldn't mind it if redhat could pull their
> finger out and cut down on the spam entering the list in the first place
> either.... (Hey I find discarding email with attachments works for me!)

I think you'll find that those are legitimate list members who have been
infected with a virus. And we can't easily screen it on MIME type because
it was application/mixed which could be legitimate. Perhaps we should
filter out all mail with "X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express" :-).

Jifl
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