On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:51:02AM -0600,
Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:35:10 CDT, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> > It isn't my list, but if it was I would add the IP addresses of any servers
> > that sent a virus warning to my list into my tcp rules block list.
>
> Unfortunately that won't work. The email is sent to a list exploder
> and never directly delivered to your mail server. So, this would only
> be useful on the list server. :-)
That is what I was suggesting. DJB can see what server sent the virus
warning messages to the list and block further messages of any kind
from being injected from that server.
I don't agree that blocking the server is unacceptable because it punishes
people forced to use that server. For one thing, people may be using a
different server to send mail to the list than the server sending the
virus warnings.
I don't know that blocking attachments on this list is a great idea.
It may be reasonable to send small examples to the list as attachments
rather than asking people to go to a web site to see them. Also, not
including attachments isn't a guarenty that some virus scanner won't
like the subject of your message or find some other reason to send a
message to the sender and all recipients of a message.
