Re: Why is abiword-dev plagued by viruses?

From: Alan Horkan (horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 07:39:03 EST

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    On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, M. Fioretti wrote:

    > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:56:27 +0100
    > From: M. Fioretti <m.fioretti_at_inwind.it>
    > To: abiword-dev_at_abisource.com
    > Subject: Re: Why is abiword-dev plagued by viruses?
    >
    > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 15:18:10 PM -0800, Robert G. Werner (robert_at_inreachtech.net) wrote:
    > > M. Fioretti wrote:
    > > [snip]
    > > >Of course, somebody may be easily forging that header, and then send
    > > >mydoom stuff faking real abiword developer headers *just* to me, but
    > > >why? Have you noticed the same thing?
    > > [snip]
    > > I'm not seeing any viruses from people on this list. Just an FYI.

    I dont pay much attention to where they come from usually but when I did
    notice one I politely made a suggestion to Hubert offlist because most
    people dont want to know about such list administration issue. I mailed
    the webmaster I think or it might have been the $listname-admin at
    abisource.com or suchlike.

    Hubert might be willing to tighten up the list filtering especially if you
    have suitable procmail scripts and whatnot that you are willing to share
    and help with. It might also be worthwile for the list to filter using
    amavis or clam-av, it seems to almost be a neccessity with lists these
    days. Many efforts have been made to tighten up the lists over the years
    eventually resulting in the complete banning of HTML email when Sobig
    provided sufficient excuse. It is a tough job but I'm thankful that Hub
    does it.

    Sincerely

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

    > >
    >
    > I don't either. What I see, and may be wrong of course, are lots of
    > messages coming from the mailing list software of this list, with From
    > headers sometimes sometimes including addresses of real members of
    > this list.
    >
    > Ciao,
    > Marco Fioretti
    >
    > --
    > Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it
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    >
    > According to one popular definition, craziness is doing the same thing
    > over and over but expecting different results.
    >

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