Perhaps blocking attachments on the current lists, and setting up an additional openssl-patches list that accepts attachments would work. Most people would not bother subscribing to the patches list anyway.
Steven -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Kaufman Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2002 12:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Virus/Faked email addresses On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Geoff Thorpe wrote: > I would personally +1 any proposal to have the listserver block any posts > that; > (a) contain attachments > (b) aren't ASCII (ie. block HTML, RTF, etc) > > Anyone needing to distribute files can find some other legitimate way to do > it. Attachments are often the only way to distribute patches to the list that don't get munged by the archiving software, so that they remain available in the list archives. An occasional inappropriate post shouldn't be enough to change the way the list operates. Doug __ Doug Kaufman Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
