RE: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder
-Original Message- From: Steven Reddie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 August 2001 12:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder At least I thought it was a joke. Steven That was me, and it was a joke. However, there are anti-virus products about that will send the virus back to the sender (what on earth for I ask?). We don't set ours to do this and I'm pleased to see that our AV package didn't send any auto-response other than to internal administrators (including myself). We already get grief from our users because Out of Office messages don't go the Internet! Mind you, if a mischievious sysadmin in the UK has done this deliberately as a result of my suggestion, I'd like to chase him/her under the Computer Misuse Act. - John Airey Internet Systems Support Officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute for the Blind, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email's content. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then delete the email and any attachments from your system. RNIB has made strenuous efforts to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any viruses which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RNIB. RNIB Registered Charity Number: 226227 Website: http://www.rnib.org.uk __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote: Just out of curiosity, why are attachments allowed on the list in the first place? Is there any legitimate reason for it? Well, why not? Is there any legitimate reason *not* to? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:03:10 -0500 (EST), Mark H. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote: Just out of curiosity, why are attachments allowed on the list in the first place? Is there any legitimate reason for it? Well, why not? Is there any legitimate reason *not* to? Well, there exist common mail clients with buggy scriptable interfaces that allow malicious programs to send other malicious programs to everyone in the address book and/or everyone the user emails. That seems like a pretty legitimate reason not to allow attachments on a list. The submission of patches is a good point, but to date I have not seen a single patch submitted on the list as an attachment -- and I've been here several months. It seems to me that any patch large enough to need an attachment would be more properly placed on an FTP site somewhere, anyway. Just a thought. I'm not really bothered by any of the message-bouncing and virus-detection spam, myself, and tend to think it's funny instead of getting mad over it. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder
At least I thought it was a joke. Steven __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder
Hi, Steven Reddie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Subject: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder At least I thought it was a joke. No Joke. The virus scanner run by btitele.com bounces the virus back on the list again and again. Sadly it doesn't tell us who the subscriber from that site is... Thomas __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder
I still think this would all stop if the openssl mail server rejected (and deleted) the virus before sending the message to everyone on the list. Thomas Bätzler wrote: Hi, Steven Reddie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Subject: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder At least I thought it was a joke. No Joke. The virus scanner run by btitele.com bounces the virus back on the list again and again. Sadly it doesn't tell us who the subscriber from that site is... Thomas __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nathan Bell Companion Corporation Evelyn Manufacturing 801-943-7277 Etc... )); __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:05:24 -0600, Nathan Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still think this would all stop if the openssl mail server rejected (and deleted) the virus before sending the message to everyone on the list. Just out of curiosity, why are attachments allowed on the list in the first place? Is there any legitimate reason for it? __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
