At 01:44 PM 1/23/2003, Loek Jehee wrote:
Good luck! AOL is a nasty, ugly monster which hates mailing lists! I had to move my lists to a new host because of their blocking of the mailinglists.org domain.they now wrote Emails of complaint to the postmaster urging AOL to "whitelist" my mailing list and threatening them to quit their account. This might help. Let's wait and see. I didn't get any reply from AOL on my message so far.
It's easy to keep viruses from going out over a list by setting a maxlength of a sufficiently small size to reject virus attachments (I have it set to 20K which has been enough) and to have restricted posting (the vast majority of viruses will come "from" an address which is not on your list because "From" fields are forged by the virus).I am very much afraid that the recent Klesh type viruses could soon create a situation in which all mailing lists will be banned from large mail servers because we - as their administrators - (and the Email address of the list itself) will definitely exist in thousands of address books so the chance that our address will be abused by a virus on an affected computer is extremely high.
...Bob
