> > I'll try to keep this a little bit on-topic... Does this mailing list
do
> > any sort of virus scanning? I know you can't post to the list unless
you're
> > actually on the list, but any scanning going on?
>
> No there isn't any virus scanning going on.
>
> There is however a message limit that tends to block most attachments.
>
> FWIW, I work at Postini, http://www.postini.com , a company that provides
> real time email spam and virus blocking services. Customers simply point
> their MX records at us, and then we take care of the rest, filtering
> stuff out, and passing on just the good mail. I don't however run
base.com
> mail through Postini. base.com provides me a portal on the net without
the
> Postini filters in place. This is useful for collecting spam which can
> then be used to tune Postini's spam filtering engine.
I was just wondering... that Homepage virus that was going around last week
was actually relatively small. I don't know what size limits you have on
the list, but it did cross my mind: what would happen if someone got a virus
and had [EMAIL PROTECTED] in their address book (as I do).
As for blocking spam, I created a spam user and try to advertise that as
much as possible, hoping it'll get on as many lists as there are.
The email software we use, Communigate, will reject any email that has that
spamtrap user as one of the recipients. Works fine for those spammers that
use to: or cc: fields, but not really much help for the bcc. Oh well.
I wonder... could the base.com be setup to block all attachments, or, for
that matter, block HTML posts, allowing text only?
Aaron (who is currently fighting off some spam of his own... grid.net user
bouncing off mindspring.net and then into our machines... argh!)
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