From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10070 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2003 16:28:35 -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 29160 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 16:28:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3FA7D3FE.8090308@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:29:50 -0500 From: Kumba Reply-To: kumba@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20031104132904.GM31552@mail.lieber.org> <87r80o18am.fsf@jay.local.invalid> <200311041017.38028.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200311041017.38028.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking virii-like attachments on gentoo.org email X-Archives-Salt: aebb81d6-353c-42b8-99c2-72ffef04d7a8 X-Archives-Hash: d0b662e3c8b85844456cd166f0b69a87 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:07, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > >>Although they likely have nothing to do with Linux, they are also >>harmless to all decent Linux email clients and users. Thus, I see no >>need to block them specifically. Like other spam filtering, I think >>this should be left to individual developers. > > > not all Gentoo developers utilize linux as their desktop machine and/or read > e-mail on a non-windows machine. > -mike *waves* Win2k SP4 Here for a desktop here, so yes, this would a useful I think. Even though I'm usually smart enough to not execute such files attached to mail, I might still be tempted to look inside the files to analyze, which I did with Klez once. Wound up getting the thing on my machine :P --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list