> What Sun *could* do is set their mailing list software to not
> allow attachments.
Another vote for no attachments...
May we take a consensus? Maybe Sun will listen, this time.
Phil
> And maybe messages with more than two
> sequential exclamation points... :-).
p.s.: (^; I second the motion!!! ;^)
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: Complaint
>> I took a shot with this email to the webmaster at java.sun.com:
>> [...]
>> Our group, the JSP interest group at [EMAIL PROTECTED], would
like to
>> request some virus protection for emails and attachments coming through
the list.
>> Can you arrange to scan items as they come through and pull out any
viruses?
>> Lately we've had a round of infected emails in the group and many of us
are quite
>> concerned.
>>
>> Please let me know as soon as possible what you have in place or will put
in place
>> regarding this issue. If you wouldn't mind posting your response to the
group,
>> that would be appreciated by many - otherwise I will be happy to pass any
>> information on to the group.
>
> Several of the other java mailing lists are seeing similar
>issues. You'd think that with a bunch of mailing lists devoted to
>java, you wouldn't be seeing these obvious MS Outlook VBscript mail
>viruses bouncing back and forth. I don't have a problem with these
>mail viruses, other than the fact that they clutter up my mail box.
>The answer is quite obvious, don't use an inherently flawed and
>insecure email client like MS Outlook.
>
> There are products, mail gateways that scan incoming email for
>viruses and filter the out. They are usually very expensive to
>purchase and very expensive to run (CPU-intensive). I don't expect
>Sun to set something like that up for a non-profit, external mailing
>list like this.
>
> What Sun *could* do is set their mailing list software to not
>allow attachments. Since any valid attachment could as easily be
>handled by putting the file on a website or ftp archive somewhere,
>this shouldn't be a hardship, and it will completely block these inane
>mail viruses.
>
> And while we're at it, could we block out messages with no
>subject line? :-) And how about mesages with "unsubscribe" in the
>subject or as the only line? And maybe messages with more than two
>sequential exclamation points... :-).
>
>Steven J. Owens
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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