Virus transmission via list - was Re: [plug] Here to find out more!

[Craig Foster]

Agreed, as the earlier others were PDF, JPG, or log attachments, all of
which are better suited to putting on a personal website.
This is something which the group has gravitated towards anyway...

I can't account for virii as they're stripped by my e-mail server :)


Regards,

Craig F.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Blackham [mailto:bernard at blackham.com.au] 
> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 2:29 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: Virus transmission via list - was Re: [plug] 
> Here to find out more!
> 
> 
> > Its not that easy.
> 
> Here's some stats from my own archives:
> 
> Out of 3500 messages from PLUG between March and July 2002
> inclusive, only 8 were over 30K. Of these, 2 were viruses, 1 was the
> XP EULA, and 5 had hefty attachments or logs which weren't entirely
> necessary to send to the list (including replies with attachments
> attached).

<snip>

> Essentially, if people are concerned about receiving large
> attachments or viruses, is it too easy to enforce a size limit of
> 30-50K on the list?
> 
> This is being extremely generous, and if you're posting more than
> this to the list, there are better ways. (put attachments on
> webspace, email them to people personally, don't use HTML etc).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bernard.
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