On Sun, 12 May 2002, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:20:17PM -0500, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> > Is there some reason that the ethereal lists are still all open? At
> > least the ethereal-dev one?
>
> IMHO, the openness of the Ethereal mailing lists has been a very good
> thing: It is used for support (ideally ethereal-users, but ethereal-dev
> too), and it makes it easier for "outsiders" to submit patches or ask
> question that may lead to patches.
> Maybe some tuning of the current mailscanner to actually detect the Klez
> virus would be sufficient. That way, most spam/virii is marked and you
> can drop it via your procmailrc (or whatever you are using instead).
Mail for the -users, -dev, and -doc lists gets piped through Anomy
Sanitizer and SpamAssassin before passing it to Mailman.
(Ethereal-announce and ethereal-cvs have other restrictions on them.)
Sanitizer is configured to drop any attachment that appears to be
executable, e.g. with ".exe" or ".scr" in its filename. It appears that
Klez has revealed a bug in Sanitizer where attachments with spaces in
their filenames are incorrectly parsed:
http://mailtools.anomy.net/archives/anomy-bugs/2002-04/0007.shtml
Even when it strips out an attachment, the message itself still goes
through, which is not the desired behavior in most cases. I'll try to
find a better solution.
>
> Ciao
> Jörg
> --
> Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
> what proactive means.
>
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