Re: Eliminating Virus Spam

[chris d koeberle <kodiak at flail.com>]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, James M Galvin wrote:
> I think this discussion needs to separate at least two distinct issues.
> 
> 1. Should the IETF elist messages be scanned for viruses?
> 
> 2. Should the IETF elist restrict the type of content that can be
>    submitted?

Bear this in mind when you say that - I am running (in the spirit of
inclusion) an operating system / mailservice that I wrote myself.  My
system is set up such that, upon receiving an e-mail which contains any
sort of attachment it does not recognize (and it doesn't recognize
anything but 7-bit ASCII text), it immediately replies to every address
mentioned in the e-mail, including every attachment, and throwing in a
virus for every other system for which one is known.  Please be certain to
include virus-scanning which respects the fact that to my system, all
attachments are viruses.

(Naturally, I have configured my system to APPEAR as though I'm just using
PINE, but trust me - it works the way I say it does.  Really.)

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