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From: rsw at jfet.org (Riad S. Wahby) Subject: Re: viruses being sent to this list John Cartwright <johnc@...k.org.uk> wrote: > As I see it, there are two means of regulating malicious content > from spoofed subscribed addresses. One, we moderate the list. Two, we > use anti-virus or other scanning to try to prevent this data flow. > Let's consider the effect of these options: On the Cypherpunks node I run, every email is demimed[1] before it's sent to list subscribers. In my opinion, (almost) every mailing list ought to do the same. Let people who want to transfer files use a more appropriate medium (http, ftp, bittorrent, whatever) or UUEncode them. [1] http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html -- Riad Wahby rsw@...t.org MIT VI-2 M.Eng
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