Re: Eliminating Virus Spam

[Denis Mcmahon <denisf at PICKAXE.DEMON.CO.UK>]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 23:57:53 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>1. Should the IETF elist messages be scanned for viruses?

This would require that appropriate virus detection software exist in
the environment that the mail list is operated.

Are you aware of eg an Acorn Archimedes virus scanner that runs in a
vax/vms environment?

>2. Should the IETF elist restrict the type of content that can be
>   submitted?

I see no reason that the IETF list(s) should not be restrictd to
plaintext[1], with either a remove-the-attachment or even
drop-the-message approach (possibly with an automated unsubscribe) to
non text attachments / content.

Anyone who wants to distribute non plaintext can post it on a website
or ftp directory somewhere for collection by those who actually want
it.

Rgds
Denis

[1] Text based markup eg html is *NOT* plaintext in this context.
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