I think it would be a mistake for the IETF to try to get into the
business of protecting mailing list subscribers from virses. But the
list membership should be protected from anti-virus software spamming
by some combination of filters and unsubscribing those whose sites run
such unscalable software.
Donald
From: John Border <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:41:05 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I am not that familiar with the details of how mailing list servers work.
>Is it possible to configure a mailing list server (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]?)
>to do a virus scan on an incoming mail message before forwarding it to the
>mailing list, bouncing the mail message back to the sender if a virus is
>detected? (Or, since From addresses might be faked, maybe just tossing it is
>the right answer.) If such a capability doesn't exist, maybe it should...
>
>John
