From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2153 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2003 18:46:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31356 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 18:46:55 -0000 Message-ID: <27623.209.90.91.13.1067975213.squirrel@squirrelmail.kydance.net> In-Reply-To: <20031104132904.GM31552@mail.lieber.org> References: <20031104132904.GM31552@mail.lieber.org> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:46:53 -0700 (MST) From: "Matthew Walker" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking virii-like attachments on gentoo.org email X-Archives-Salt: cd2a4ca6-6170-443c-b702-a035bfce04d4 X-Archives-Hash: 15ee202f21ed6159cedcd8aff9228782 I'm all for this! My box already does it automagically when it recieves mail. I never even hear about messages with those attachements. Kurt Lieber said: > Folks -- > > We are looking at potentially blocking any/all attachments sent to > developer email addresses with one of the following extensions: > > jse?|exe|com|cmd|shs|hta|bat|scr|pif > > These extensions are most notable for a) not having much, if anything, to > do with Linux and b) having a whole lot to do with windows-based viruses. > > The blocking would be more of a convenience to you all -- designed to get > rid of those virii from your inboxes. However, I didn't want to implement > it without posting it for discussion here first. > > Unless there's significant negative feedback on this idea, we will be > implementing it later this week. > > --kurt > -- Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=utoxin&p=main -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list