Please don't post Microsoft Windows Viruses or Worms to the mailing list (Was: Re: [kaffe] Your details)
Dalibor Topic
robilad at kaffe.org
Wed Aug 20 08:50:02 PDT 2003
Hi Jim,
Jim Pick wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:03:12 -0700
> Jim White <jim at pagesmiths.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm getting a slew of those bogus emails, but at least my system won't
>>be sending any.
>
>
> Yeah, there's 147 messages in the moderation queue right now. :-(
>
> We're just moderating posts that appear to come from people not on the
> list. If a worm is going to be smart enough to harvest emails from the
> mailing list archives, and use those to fake posts to the list, mailman
> is going to let those through. I might have to add some additional
> layers of defenses...
would it be possible to automatically block & bounce e-mails with
attachments that are windows executables (PIF, EXE, VBS, whetever they
have on that weird platform)?
cheers,
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