Re: Eliminating Virus Spam

[Joe Touch]

RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
> At 19:07 03/01/01, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> >I'd just bounce all emails with non-text attachments with a message
> >requesting that attachments not be sent to the list, and that the
> >message be resent as text. Simple. sufficient.
> 
>         Fully agree.  There is no need to use any thing that
> isn't text/plain to the main IETF list.
> 
> Ran
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How about adding some filters to the mailer?
I've implemented this on other lists, to
majordomo's 'taboo headers' pattern list:

        /^Subject: Antigen found/
        /^Subject: Virus Notification/
        /^Subject: Virus Alert/

The list maintainer gets the error message
(taboo header found), and can notify the list
_gracefully_.

Joe