Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:19:42 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Owner of many system processes <william@hq.newdream.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (WOT) Re: the best edited picture ever Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1011206155044.11905C-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20011206044206.GD12011@hq.newdream.net>
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Hi William and all, I too hate to contribute to this WOT noise, but it's been an ongoing problem, and the level of these things especially lately is becoming huge, and can only get worse the more people keep buying Windows .. On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Owner of many system processes wrote: > Colin Faber wrote: [..] > > Solutions suggested on how to correct such problems though the worst > > thing that I can think of happening is nothing being done at all. > > the lengthy discussions regarding these problems everytime another spam, > virus, or autoresponse from someone's misconfigured virus scanner get > pretty annoying too. i realize i'm contributing to the noise by > furthering this discussion, but i do think that stripping out binary > attachments to the list except for pgp/MIME signatures would be a Good > Thing. moderating the list would also be nice, although as someone > mentioned, perhaps not appropriate for such a forum. I do believe that stripping irrelevant attachments (including HTML!) would be the best thing, and this could best be done by MIME type. For example, ALL of the recent so-called double-suffix virii, whatever the final extension, were of MIME type audio/x-wav. There's no conceivable reason to pass audio/x-wav (and many other types) to almost any mailing list. Forget 'extensions', as it's only M$ that would be stupid enough to choose whether to display, otherwise render or _execute_ attachments based solely on the last three characters of an arbitary file name! > closing the list to off-list subscribers seems to be the simplest > option, and while it might be annoying, there could be some sort of > alternate method of allowing people to post to the list (maybe a web > form for non-subscribers or something)? freebsd-questions is also > non-moderated, so perhaps it would be ok to simply close this list to > off-list subscribers entirely? I get freebsd-questions as digest, for occasional utility - couldn't handle the extra volume otherwise - but lately there've been digests with little more than a few messages _other_ than these large virii; there's just no need to pass (eg) audio/x-wav attachments there, either. [on topic? I'd actually like to know what can be done with majordomo to accomplish it; we're having just this problem with a list run from here] I don't agree that these lists need the large overhead of moderation, if a (hopefully) simple technical fix can drastically reduce the volume of this crap in any and all freebsd lists - including stripping HTML mail. Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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