At least you have managed to slow down the mailing list server (well, probably it's the number of virus emails that is the largest culprit), I didn't receive this email until friday afternoon and it was apparently sent out on wednesday.
Do the rejected emails bounce back to the sender? In that case, many people on the list will still suffer from a large number of virus emails, since the fake From: address often is taken from the same list of email addresses where the virus found the mailing list. Still, for serious emailers who want to reach the mailing list it's important to get some response about why the email was rejected and how they can get around it (this should also be documented at http://lilypond.org/web/about/ or http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user )
/Mats
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday we tried having the mailing list software (Mailman 2.1.2) reject mail with application/octet-stream attachments. The Mailman user interface is a bit vague; it turned out that the virus mails still get to the mailing lists, with attachments stripped. This is perhaps a worse situation: virus mails are smaller now, but cannot easily be detected and filtered anymore.
As a more draconian measure we have decided to restrict email to simple text/plain (or text/html). Emails that have mutipart/mixed are rejected until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Greetings,
Jan.
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