[cvsnt] OH MY GHOD! There are viruses out there!

Bo Berglund Bo.Berglund at system3r.se
Mon Aug 25 16:52:32 BST 2003


John,
I guess that the reason we see this is that Tony is on vacation and has
not seen the trash hiimself yet...
He usually reacts quite quickly on things like autoreplies and spam in
general, but unfortunately not now.
I'm quite annoyed too.

/Bo

-----Original Message-----
From: John Peacock [mailto:jpeacock at rowman.com]
Sent: den 25 augusti 2003 17:23
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: [cvsnt] OH MY GHOD! There are viruses out there!


I have a rather abusive recommendation for clearing up the list (since every 
single message I read today was either a virus alert, "Out of Office" bot, or 
some combination thereof).

DROP THE LIST COMPLETELY!  There is no reason people cannot use a newsgroup 
reader instead.

If that is not practical, do the following instead:

1) Delete every single address from the list (send a warning if you feel like it).

2) Set the list to require member only posting

3) Install something like qconfirm

	http://smarden.org/qconfirm/

to require human confirmation of every single posting to the list.  I can help 
set this up.

4) Zero tolerance for morons who set up an autoreply to a list.  Delete their 
account and add them to the forbidden list.

John

p.s. yes, I'm sick of dealing with viruses and lusers, why do you ask?

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