Yannick Patois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 30 Apr 2002, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I work behind a firewall, and I cannot setup an URL
> > outside the firewall.
>
> That's wrong.
> What prevent you to open a page to any free web hosting service, put your
> stuff on
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:08:42PM +0200, Thomas Templin wrote:
> hhhmm, you know what you are talking about? :-))
> As much as I know LyX file are ascii files and for me there should
> be no problem to poste a lyx file _without_ using attachments. Due
> to my experienxe even Windows users are a
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:17:19AM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> (As it happens it seems the spam list has some problems. So I have
> moved this back to lyx-users for now).
The list is fixed now, and is in working order. I have not seen any
spam yet there...
> I'm glad to hear you are prepared to
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:03:55PM -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> -dump all attachments before they go to the list management
> software's alias.
The above is a drastic solution. Certainly not suitable for the devel
list, but looking through the user's list archive, I would not
implement it th
no choice in the matter. Beats me. If everyone on
the list is happy with a no-HTML policy, that's fine with me - I always have
my mail client read HTML as text in any case. IMHO, the only point in using
HTML for e-mail is when non-ascii characters are required, which doesn't
really
o solve anything.
You are grossly misinformed. Why do not you look at
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel%40lists.lyx.org/msg37283.htm
and the thread starting with
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg30438.html
The proposed method would also eliminate viruses... At the
> hard drive is ruined". Indeed, I do not see why it is my
> > > responsibility to protect you from viruses; I am not your
> > > ISP.
> >
> > But you ar th maintainer of a mailing list which spreads
> > viruses to a lot of users, which may not be as p
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 01:17, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > The
> > second problem is with filtering attachments - it's frequently
> > useful on a list of this type for people to be able to attach
> > LyX files. Filtering out certain types of attachments (e.g.
> > .exe, .bat) would of course be u
Hi,
On 30 Apr 2002, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Unfortunately, I work behind a firewall, and I cannot setup an URL
> outside the firewall.
That's wrong.
What prevent you to open a page to any free web hosting service, put your
stuff on it and say "my stuff is at
http://www.somewhere.org/here/it/is
Brett Dikeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> People should never send attachments, they should reference URLs.
> 99% of the attachments that drift by have absolutely no use to
> me...and posting attachments is completely useless to people reading
> the archives a week, month, year later. URLs, if
.
>
> If you implement it, make sure the message containing a virus is not
> bounced back to sender but simply discarded.
[...]
> Viruses are just one of our problems: spam is the other. I can safely
> say that the only way to tackle both if we implement one of the two
> meth
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:59:17PM -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> Are we talking about spam? (no, we're talking about viruses,
> completely different issue, especially since the emails v/viruses
> tend to come from list members.)
Same difference. Same tools same problem same sol
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:03:55PM -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> At 3:15 PM -0500 4/29/02, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> >Lately, I received emails such as
> >
> >"I received a lot viruses from the lyx users list, and now my
> >windows partition is ruined."
>
At 3:15 PM -0500 4/29/02, Mate Wierdl wrote:
>Lately, I received emails such as
>
>"I received a lot viruses from the lyx users list, and now my
>windows partition is ruined."
>
>I am truly sorry to hear this, but:
>
>--- The virus _never_ originates from my s
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:56:53AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> Two problems here. While I prefer plain text mail, some people have email
> accounts which insist on sending as HTML (sounds stupid, but this issue has
> come up on a number of lists).
Well, I run a mailing list myself, which *bou
> responsibility to protect you from viruses; I am not your ISP.
>
> But you ar th maintainer of a mailing list which spreads viruses to
> a lot of users, which may not be as professional as you are. Due to
> my experience a lot/most users are not familiar with system
> administrati
On Monday 29 April 2002 22:15, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> Lately, I received emails such as
>
> "I received a lot viruses from the lyx users list, and now my
> windows partition is ruined."
>
> I am truly sorry to hear this, but:
>
> --- The virus _never_ originat
Lately, I received emails such as
"I received a lot viruses from the lyx users list, and now my
windows partition is ruined."
I am truly sorry to hear this, but:
--- The virus _never_ originates from my server (the server is a Linux
server, and there are no other users but lyx (
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 18:07, Niklas Werner wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >OK, it seems we have some spammers around here.
> >
> >In the last two days I've received via the lyx list a message from
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with attachments named "playboy.gif", and two other
> >messages wit
n we do to stop it?
>
right, most of us are using un*x, so at least the viruses don't hurt.
But it is annoying.
who is lyx-users-admin ? this guy should be able to put those people on
the blacklist.
(replying to the email-address very seldom helps... either it's a
corrupted win-machine or some fake)
have fun* (nevertheless)
niklas
OK, it seems we have some spammers around here.
In the last two days I've received via the lyx list a message from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with attachments named "playboy.gif", and two other
messages with a possible virus.
What can we do to stop it?
Best regards,
Alberto Vecchiato
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