I'm repeatedly pinging the people who can do something about this -
sorry for the inconvenience (and expense :/ )
-Eric
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Daniel Mose wrote:
>
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:02:42AM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> > >
> > > This KLEZ virus is going around all over the place. SGI isn't the only
> > > list that is sending these out, but the virus is so darn common now I
> > > have to wonder if improved filtering is needed on public lists. One type
> > > of message that should never be sent to XFS devel is
> > > "application/octet-stream"...if this one line could be used as a junk
> > > buster (virus buster), we'd get rid of a whole family of MS virii.
> >
> > these things are sent as general spams anyway so filtering off lists
> > won't make a dent. the only way to get rid of MS viruses is to get
> > rid of MS software.
> > --
> > Ethan Benson
> > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> >
>
> The XFS list is the only mailing list (or personal mbox)
> that I recieve "octet streams" from. Today it amounted
> to almost 1MB. Not all persons here are on ADSL. Please at
> least _try_ not to waste peoples bandwidth with crap.
>
> Regards
> /Daniel
>
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