On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:15:47PM -0500, guenter strubinsky wrote: >I haven't received a single virus so far. I assume that this is either a >moderated list -but it's too quick for that- or a virus and spam scanner >runs through the contributions before releasing it. > >It did never occur to me: > >I had alone about 50 scans, around 20 crude IIS oriented attacks, 8 codered >and 4 apache attacks over the last 2 weeks. No idea about sp*m and viruses >sent to me since it's filtered externally. But this list is probably a >target from many sides. > >This list is relatively free of spam AND totally free of viruses.
Thanks. I work hard at keeping the spam filters up-to-date. The spam filter went through a relatively major overhaul recently and it has been much better at weeding out the crap. The aaaspam mailing list is also getting quite a bit of traffic these days, which also helps in blocking offenders. Unfortunately, there are still some viruses and spam that slip through. I delete them from the archives when I notice them. The message that started this thread contained a spreadsheet (?!) which showed some viruses in the automake (?!) mailing list from 2001 (?!). While I don't think that this kind of email is appropriate for the cygwin mailing list in general, discussion of automake mailing list viruses is *clearly* off-topic. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
