Virus mails
You know, I'm really not one to complain about the usual spam. Of course it's annoying, but I think sorting it out and deleting it is outweight by far by the benefit of the list. But I'm still getting three or more virus mails with attachments 100k+ daily from the wget lists and they're blocking my mailbox (dial-up). And getting those dumb "system warnings" accompanying them doesn't make it better. Isn't there really no way to stop that (at least disallow attachments)? Patches and such still can be pasted into the text, can't they? -- Brix
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oops, should have gone to list, sorry agree fully, can the sys admin pull his proverbial fingers out as soon as possible and have this list professionally semi-automatically operate to the benefit of participants not to the benefit of wayward, spammers and lazy advertisers! Where are the unsub instructions btw ? rdgs Mike At 11:01 PM 26/4/2002 +0200, you wrote: >You know, I'm really not one to complain about the usual spam. Of >course it's annoying, but I think sorting it out and deleting it is >outweight by far by the benefit of the list. > >But I'm still getting three or more virus mails with attachments 100k+ >daily from the wget lists and they're blocking my mailbox (dial-up). And >getting those dumb "system warnings" accompanying them doesn't make it >better. Isn't there really no way to stop that (at least disallow >attachments)? Patches and such still can be pasted into the text, >can't they? > >-- Brix > > > Regards Mike Massen Hm 08 9444 8961, Fx 08 9384 0861, Mb 0438 048961 Some power stuff here: http://www.iinet.net.au/~erazmus Ancient Sufi saying: "Should your God save you from adversity, choose another God"
Re: Virus mails
Brix Lichtenberg wrote: > But I'm still getting three or more virus mails with attachments 100k+ > daily from the wget lists and they're blocking my mailbox (dial-up). And > getting those dumb "system warnings" accompanying them doesn't make it > better. Isn't there really no way to stop that (at least disallow > attachments)? Patches and such still can be pasted into the text, > can't they? I agree. Why not treat any mail with an attachment as suspect. Let the moderators approve any valid messages. Tony
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Mike, > > But I'm still getting three or more virus mails with attachments 100k+ > > daily from the wget lists and they're blocking my mailbox (dial-up). And > > getting those dumb "system warnings" accompanying them doesn't make it > > better. Isn't there really no way to stop that (at least disallow > > attachments)? Patches and such still can be pasted into the text, > > can't they? > > agree fully, can the sys admin pull his proverbial fingers out > as soon as possible and have this list professionally semi-automatically > operate to the benefit of participants not to the benefit of > wayward, spammers and lazy advertisers! Please be patient. It only took a few years for the list admin to start trying to reduce SPAM. Let's not try to rush him into anything. After all, who knows what kind of useful information could be lost if virus laden messages were to be blocked from transmision to their intended recipients. Of course, this list admin also feels that it's OK to tell someone that you don't care what they have to say on anything, except one question that you're asking (list open to non-subscribers). > Where are the unsub instructions btw ? According to 'http://wget.sunsite.dk/#mailinglists', all you have to do is send an E-mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Good luck. Peter Ashford
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"Peter L. Ashford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course, this list admin also feels that it's OK to tell someone > that you don't care what they have to say on anything, except one > question that you're asking (list open to non-subscribers). I'm trying to understand the message behind the sarcasm here. Do you honestly think that each person who asks a question should "pay" for the answer by listening to what you have to say on any other subject? Let me remind you that this is a bug list. As for the spam, I am really sorry about it. The sunsite people have not been fast in setting up the filters, but they're working on it.
