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RE: [Users] Virus in Mailinglist

From: James Selph (jselph_at_icanon.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 15:11:24 CEST


The really funny thing is that every one of these auto responses is coming
from a windows machines... How much does the radio ad say windows certified
engineers are making now? Obviously not enough to correct these types of
problems ;^)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org
> [mailto:users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org]On Behalf Of Giacomo Mulas
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:27 AM
> To: Linux-IPSEC users mailing List
> Cc: users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Virus in Mailinglist
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Stefan Homberg wrote:
>
> > Who's that jerk, who's flooding the mailing list with virus
> infected postings??? STOP THAT IMMEDIATELY!!!
>
> Virii in the mailing list are annoying. BUT even more so is the ton of
> automatic replies that get sent to the list as a result of
> it. Would the
> mailing list administrators please send a warning to the
> postmasters of
> the relevant domains and politely (the first time) ask them
> to configure
> their virus scanners properly, so that they do not send virus
> warnings to
> mailing lists (to this one, at very least)? As to the ones who do not
> respond, please do blacklist them until they learn the
> lesson! Recently as
> much as 2/3 of the mailing list traffic (on some days) was due to this
> damned automatic replies.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for overreacting (just a bit)
> Giacomo
>
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