On Jul 12, 2005, at 11:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what does "DEFANGED" mean?
For anyone interested: That's from the music.memphis.edu mail server's filtering process. The message in question was created by Micro$oft Outlook, which can do some pretty stupid things with email, and frequently adds unnecessary and potentially harmful html code to messages. Any html code that could do bad things to a subscriber's computer is deleted and replaced with the "DEFANGED" tag by the Anomy mail sanitizer (http://mailtools.anomy.net/) on our system. That's before it goes through the antivirus (http://www.clamav.net) and spam (http:// spamassassin.apache.org/) filters, and before Mailman (http:// www.list.org) (the list server) strips all other html from the message before sending it on to the list. As a result, the likelihood of being infected with a virus by a horn list post is extremely remote. The down side of that is the occasional 'DEFANGED" tag or the message that "an attachment named 'xxx' was deleted from this message because it contained potentially harmful content..." showing up in a post. Be aware, however, that [email protected] CAN show up as a return address on mail that is not actually from the list, and if it does, that mail almost certainly contains a virus. The subject line of legitimate horn list posts always contains [Hornlist]. Some time in the next week or so, the horn list will be moved to a new server. The list posting address will not change, but the web URL for accessing individual accounts will. The main listinfo page will be http://music2.memphis.edu/maliman/listinfo/horn. The list will probably be off line for a period of a few hours to a day. I will send a message to the list and a single message digest out just before that happens, and do the same again when it's back up. The change should be transparent to users, but please remember that I'm a music geek, not a computer geek, and please be patient if there are any unexpected side consequences of the change :-) Thanks! Dan _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
