Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-30 Thread bernd
Hello Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list. Debian mailing lists are used for development, this includes

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-30 Thread bernd
Hello Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list. Debian mailing lists are used for development, this includes

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-29 Thread Guillermo Bernaldo de Q. Maraver
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:11:14 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list. Debian

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list. Debian mailing lists are used for development, this includes distribution of patches.

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-29 Thread Guillermo Bernaldo de Q. Maraver
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:11:14 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list. Debian

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-28 Thread bernd
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non-conforming ASCII characters (ANSI bombs) and things like that should be removed without comment. So anything that doesn't fall within the US-ASCII encoding is thrown out the window, sending us back into the character set stone age?

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-28 Thread bernd
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:18:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any mail in HTML format should be *automatically* converted to plain text format, links deactivated or at least all tags removed. I think something like this already happens; the HTML part of multipart/alternative mails

Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Wimmer
Hello to everyone, I know, this discussion is a bit off topic, but in my eyes it is necesarry. Today I received at laest 5 viruses through debian- [EMAIL PROTECTED]. So the server delivering the messages sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] must be checked for viruses before delivery to the individual

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-27 Thread bernd
Martin, my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list. Any mail in HTML format should be *automatically* converted to plain text format, links deactivated or at

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-27 Thread bernd
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non-conforming ASCII characters (ANSI bombs) and things like that should be removed without comment. So anything that doesn't fall within the US-ASCII encoding is thrown out the window, sending us back into the character set stone age?

Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Wimmer
Hello to everyone, I know, this discussion is a bit off topic, but in my eyes it is necesarry. Today I received at laest 5 viruses through debian- [EMAIL PROTECTED]. So the server delivering the messages sent to debian-cd@lists.debian.org must be checked for viruses before delivery to the

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-27 Thread bernd
Martin, my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list. Any mail in HTML format should be *automatically* converted to plain text format, links deactivated or at

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-27 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non-conforming ASCII characters (ANSI bombs) and things like that should be removed without comment. So anything that doesn't fall within the US-ASCII encoding is thrown out the window, sending us back into the character set stone age?

Re: Sending Viruses through debian-cd@lists.debian.org

2004-01-27 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:18:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any mail in HTML format should be *automatically* converted to plain text format, links deactivated or at least all tags removed. I think something like this already happens; the HTML part of multipart/alternative mails is