Re: virus warning

["xykz" xykz@xxxxxxxx]

YOU is the person that gets emails. (SMILE)
It' s only a MANUAL solution to avoid virus pollution.
If I'll get a virus from the list, I'll send a warning.
By.



Date sent:   	Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:33:38 -0400
From:      	cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)
To:       	XyWrite List 
Subject:    	Re: virus warning
Send reply to: 	xywrite@xxxxxxxx

>
> Reply to note from "xykz"  Wed, 23 Oct 2002
> 23:39:59 +0200
>
> > You can detect virus-mail for the suspicious attachment as
> > msdos.scr or tattoo.exe or lookatme.pic, and delete it
> > immediately . Next, you could send a virus-warning message to
> > the list.
>
> "You" who? "Detect" how? And "delete" what?
>
> Posts to the list are disseminated by a robot, a piece of software
> called listproc that sits on the U.Penn. server. There is no
> opportunity to screen or delete messages before they go out to
> subscribers. And no mail-list software that I know of sends "virus
> warnings" to subscribers. Listproc doesn't.
>
> Heed your own advice and delete messages with suspicious-looking
> attachments, sight unseen. C'est la guerre.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
>


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