On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Greg Black wrote: >Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:48:28 +1000 >From: Greg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], xpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: General X Discussion <xpert.XFree86.Org> >Subject: Re: Too many viruses of late > >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, it's the viruses that get people kicked off the >| list by management. Limiting posting to members will reduce spam, but >| won't eliminate the viruses, unless I also eliminate postings from >| Outlook... > >I can certainly live with the idea of eliminating Outlook posts.
As can I. I already filter out mail from certian domain/MUA combo's directly to the bitbucket. M$ OutBreak messages get scored higher for suspicion and dropped into special folders. I get so much spam and viruses in even one day that anything that drops that count down is a pleasant thing. ;o) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
