On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Attention everyone on the list.... > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from text/html by demime 0.99d.1 > > Hello List, > > I would just like to take a minute to alert everyone to an issue > I've noticed. Somebody who is a member of the list has a virus or a > worm.
Jacob- You want to alert *everyone* ? Please realize that not everyone on the list is susceptible to the Microsoft viruses and worms presently circulating, and those that are susceptible are in no better position to do anything about it, knowing or not knowing that *someone* has an infection. Furthermore, whatever Microsoft infections are spreading these days, they are NOT spreading through this particular list, since it strips all attachments, and even renders html submissions harmless by converting them to plain-text. See, for instance, the X-Converted header on your own message (above). >In the past two days I have received 40 or 50 crap emails with > nasty things attached. Lucky for me our Symantec Email gateway has > politely removed the nasties. My sympathies. But none of these originated from this list. This is not to say that the virus did not get your e-mail address from list messages stored on your computer if you have posted to this list. But that would be *YOUR* problem, created by your choice to run Microsoft. > My suggestion to everybody would to be polite and do a virus scan on > your local pc. > > Jacob Hoover My suggestion to you, if you are sufficiently annoyed by these problems, is to connect to Internet with a more sturdy operating system. -Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
