On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:59 am, Adam Aube wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:45 am, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > There are all kinds of virus scanners out there and OS's that are not > > affected by those bugs (hint:debian). > > I really don't see what the fuss is about. > > Even if the local recipient filters out the virus, it still adds load to > the list server, it still takes space in the archives, and the list is > still bombarded with stupid "we found a virus in the message you sent" > messages, which a virus scanner will not block.
There is no way around it - people are stupid and the smartass replies waste more bandwidth than the actual virus is becoming the norm. > > There is a middle ground here - have non-subscribers reply to a > confirmation email before their message gets through. Lets > non-subscribers post without too much difficulty, and keeps most of the > junk off the list. For whatever reason debian seems not to be into that and the list servers will have to live with the load.Frankly - I don't even know if filtering the mails or just letting them thru and live with the backups consumes more resources. I just go ahead with whatever the listmaster deems best and get off the list if I can't handle my end. Klaus
