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Message-ID: <20040323164404.GA21419@positron.mit.edu>
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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