Then I guess that moves it firmly outside the purview of this list and into your ISP's hands. Good luck.
On 9/22/03 1:44 PM, "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally somebody with a clue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't effetely stop this crap > unless my ISP gives my root/admin on the mail server!!!! Even with cable > modem It takes a few minuets to down load all these virus!!! The ISP's/mail > server admin's need to stand up and so there job's!!! > > Cory C. Albrecht wrote: >> From: andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:51:43AM -0700, Wayne Rasmussen wrote: >>> >>>> You are correct on this one. It is a matter of responsibility. If the >>>> only >>>> answer is to drop from the list, then I think I will be forced to do so as >>>> well. >>>> >> >> >>>> The other thing that concerns me amongst the computer professional who just >>>> shout out "get anti-spam/anti-virus software". Is this the kind of right >>>> thinking going on in computer science these days? >>>> >> >> >>> Er, like accept the fact that the list admins may be extremely busy, they >>> may have full time jobs and they may even be in bed in a different part of >>> the world >>> and dont even know that the list is being spammed. >>> >> >> Yes, list.admins may be busy and, yes, EVERYbody should have some form of >> spam >> protection on their personal computer(s). But since when does that mean that >> list.admins should not worry about whether the server their list is hosted on >> has something like SpamAssassin running on it? >> >> Unless the end user is always connected to the 'Net and they are running >> their >> own mail server, all they can really do is signature/hash checking on emails >> they download from their pop3/imap4 server and then delete the ones that show >> a spam or virus signature. But this means in situations like this the user >> will still be receiving 500+ copies a day of the virus. (I have heard from >> some people as high as 3000 over a 48hr perioud.) 500 viral emails at ~150kB >> per virus is ~75,000kB each day and if you are on dial-up that's over 6hrs of >> time required get only your email, so forget about web surfing. >> >> If a server hosting mailing lists runs something similar to >> sendmail+procmail+spamassassin+(razor|dcc) then they could perhaps filter >> some >> of those copies out. If the major relay mail routers were to all have a >> similar setup along with a few FEATURE(`dnsbl',...) lines in their >> sendmail.mc >> then they would catch a whole lot more so then the end user would only get 10 >> a day. Still annoying, but that's only about 6min download on a dial-up >> connection. >> >> So thus the people who merely shout in response "Install a spam/virus filter >> on your personal computer" are missing the entire point about proactive >> spam/virus protection. Spam/virus protection may begin at home, but it >> doesn't >> stop there. >> -- >> Cory C. Albrecht >> A motion to adjourn is always in order. >> -- Robert A. Heinlein >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >> User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
