Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0800, Joshua Franklin wrote: >Well, I guess I'll post this to the cygwin list then. I thought the >whole point of a mailing list was to have a place where people could >get a problem solved and others can search for the same problem later. >I knew of a way arou

Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
> Subject: Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:03:19 -0800 (PST) > From: Joshua Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Well, I guess I'll post this to the cygwin list then. > I thought the whole point of a ma

Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-07 Thread Joshua Franklin
Well, I guess I'll post this to the cygwin list then. I thought the whole point of a mailing list was to have a place where people could get a problem solved and others can search for the same problem later. I knew of a way around a stupid corporate virus filter. So, I posted to the original l

RE: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-03 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
Stoddard, Isaac A wrote: [snip mere *mention* of EXEs trips AV SW] Man, I've heard some MIStapo horror stories in my time, but that one takes the proverbial cake. I simply can't imagine that such a situation can last for long at a place as big as Boeing without rioting in the cubes by the

RE: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-03 Thread Stoddard, Isaac A
t; From: John Peacock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:46 AM > To: Stoddard, Isaac A > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter > > "Stoddard, Isaac A" wrote: > > > > Fol

Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:34:58AM -0600, Stoddard, Isaac A wrote: >Our filters can't be the only ones blocking you guys (and other good >folks' news) from reaching us. Would someone at your site be >interested/able/willing to change the standard announcement text to >avoid mentioning that execut

Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-03 Thread John Peacock
"Stoddard, Isaac A" wrote: > > Folks, > > Our corporate anti-viral filters traps cygwin-announce now. Someone has > decided that (imagine the punctuation) "setup dot exe" is a potential virus > vector and all list-mailed messages containing it as a character string are > automatically blocked. H

announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

2002-01-03 Thread Stoddard, Isaac A
Folks, Our corporate anti-viral filters traps cygwin-announce now. Someone has decided that (imagine the punctuation) "setup dot exe" is a potential virus vector and all list-mailed messages containing it as a character string are automatically blocked. Hence, I can no longer receive cygwin-annou