Maybe a happy median would be to score mail for spam/viruses & have this pass
through a human filter before being posted to the list.
Thanks,
Doug.
-- doug@r4l.com Register4Less.comQuoting Adrian Daminato <adrian@tucows.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:55:08PM -0700, Dave Warren wrote: >> Adrian Daminato wrote: >> >> >Emails will no longer be blankly rejected, as a better solution has been >> >found and tested (the rejecting was a temporary fix in any case, due to >> >the recent virus activity). >> > >> >Attachments will now be stripped from emails sent to >> >discuss-list@opensrs.org, but the content of the message will still >> be >> >delivered. >> > >> >Thank you >> > >> > >> > > >> Great... So now we still get the virus' message, just not >> attachment. Good thinking. >> >> Perhaps you should REJECT the messages (note: I did not say bounce) >> them, or virus scan and silently drop the infected messages? >> > > > There are some circumstances where we don't want to blindly reject any > emails just because there is an attachment. As well, certain MTAs will > send attachments with different Content-Type headers, making it > difficult to parse them for virii. > > Our scanner already checks the messages, and converts them to text > (unless the virus definition files aren't up to date, which is rare), > however other business rules prevent us from applying a rejection to > virus infected emails across all our domains. > > Part of the limitation to what solutions are available are due to what > mailing list software we use, and wanting to maintain this list in the > same method that has been done since day 1. > > -- > Adrian Daminato > Senior Systems Administrator, Tucows Inc. > > "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." > - Philip K. Dick
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