Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
- Original Message - From: "Sérvio Túlio Pires Amarante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | > I can certainly live with the idea of eliminating Outlook posts. | | A bad idea. See, if anyone has a trouble with X and has no way to reach us | but by using Outlook? Sure, there are pine, pppd and oth

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread Sérvio Túlio Pires Amarante
Em Ter 04 Dez 2001 04:48, Greg Black escreveu: > Keith Packard wrote: > | Around 15 o'clock on Dec 4, J Grant wrote: > | > There are other solutions, i think sites like spamcop.org etc can > | > provide databases of common spam servers. But this all takes time, and > | > I believe KeithP has lots

Fw: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread Casey Boone
meant to send this to the list and not to Mr Leber personally Casey - Original Message - From: "Casey Boone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christian Leber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread Christian Leber
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:16:34AM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > >How about we let through any mail from people subscribed to the list > > > and moderate messages from anyone who isn't? > > We have a significant amount of traffic from non-subscribers; > a significant part of this

RE: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread George Jones (IT)
whoops! I thought I switched this over to plain text. Sorry. -Original Message- From: George Jones (IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:14 AM To: 'Keith Packard'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: xpert Subject: RE: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late That w

RE: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: RE: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late That wouldn't be a good thing as some of us (like myself) are forced to use Outlook by corporate thugs. "The spam is just annoying, it's the viruses that get people kicked off the list by management.  Limiting posting to members w

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread Kevin Brosius
Keith Packard wrote: > > > > Around 21 o'clock on Dec 3, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > >How about we let through any mail from people subscribed to the list > > and moderate messages from anyone who isn't? > > I suppose; that would also reduce the random spam some. The key is > to make sure

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread Frank Kujawski
Personaly, I have several mail boxes that netscape checks and drops things in the approate folders. Typicaly I subscribe with a different e-mail address than my standard one. Although I have not done this on this list I would like to be able to post to the list from an unsubscribed e-mail addres

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 21 o'clock on Dec 3, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > >How about we let through any mail from people subscribed to the list > > and moderate messages from anyone who isn't? We have a significant amount of traffic from non-subscribers; a signif

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-04 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
[Keith Packard] > Around 21 o'clock on Dec 3, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > >How about we let through any mail from people subscribed to > > the list and moderate messages from anyone who isn't? > > I suppose; that would also reduce the random spam some. This really helps on my lis

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread Greg Black
Keith Packard wrote: | Around 15 o'clock on Dec 4, J Grant wrote: | | > There are other solutions, i think sites like spamcop.org etc can | > provide databases of common spam servers. But this all takes time, and I | > believe KeithP has lots better things to do. | | The spam is just annoying,

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
Around 15 o'clock on Dec 4, J Grant wrote: > There are other solutions, i think sites like spamcop.org etc can > provide databases of common spam servers. But this all takes time, and I > believe KeithP has lots better things to do. The spam is just annoying, it's the viruses that get people ki

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
Around 21 o'clock on Dec 3, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >How about we let through any mail from people subscribed to the list > and moderate messages from anyone who isn't? I suppose; that would also reduce the random spam some. The key is to make sure your From address is a member of the lis

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread J Grant
Hi Miles O'Neal wrote: > Are you running anti-virus software? My company mail server is, it has not let any virus through so far, its just the email to me and the CC: to my sys admin/boss that means I get people inquiring all the time about why I am on lists that get viruses regularly. I agree

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 14 o'clock on Dec 4, J Grant wrote: > > > Would it be possible to moderate this list? or a least filter the > > domains that spam tends to come from so that the majority do not get > > through? Could you moderate the First post from each new

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
Around 14 o'clock on Dec 4, J Grant wrote: > Would it be possible to moderate this list? or a least filter the > domains that spam tends to come from so that the majority do not get > through? Could you moderate the First post from each new subscriber? > that way people could not just spam the

[Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread J Grant
Hello As pointed out by the .mil guy who had to leave, i too am now being questioned about this email list. I get reports of viruses emailed to me and the sysadmin regularly. Would it be possible to moderate this list? or a least filter the domains that spam tends to come from so that the major