>By the way, despite all the hullaballoo - thank you, you folks who keep
>this list and the support of Free S/WAN going. It is appreciated even
>if it's a bit frustrating right now
Right, _Thank you!_ I agree.
> > I, myself, am listadmin of some lists too, but no list distributes mail
> > without checking and filtering before!! (and I pay for the server and the
> > viruschecking)
>
> I don't understand how you can claim that virus checking is the
> responsibility of a mailinglist manager.
Well, perhaps you have to learn something new, since the mailinglists are a
good media to distribute virii there should be a protecting shield around it,
for preventing spreading the virii.
This can be done with a scanner or as John Hardin suggested with some strict
filtering rules like: no attachments, no executables, no scripts (or what so
ever) AND having this mailinglist members only, which is also standard to
prevent SPAM.
> A free-to-join and non-profit community mailinglist is a
> forum inteded to facilitate group dicussion.
Right, but along with this comes responsability, not much, but some.
> If you are using a broken mailer that is vulnerable to E-Mail viruses,
> perhaps you should switch E-Mail client?
Since you say that you are such an advanced user and are subscribed to 50+
lists, why havent you looked in the header of my emails and found it out on
your own? Oh btw you can configure Mutt the way that it always shows you the
User-Agent or X-Mailer field. ;-)
I am also subscribed to many other lists and NONE is having such virus / worm
problems!
bye
Daniel
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