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

John Peacock jpeacock at rowman.com
Mon Aug 25 16:22:51 BST 2003


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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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