From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16443 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2002 13:42:07 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Nov 2002 13:42:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 23951 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2002 13:41:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5479 Received: (qmail 23931 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2002 13:41:26 -0000 From: Borzenkov Andrey To: "'Roman Neuhauser'" , zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: RE: viruses (was Re: Meeting notice) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:39:40 +0300 Message-ID: <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F03A0B4D1@MOWD019A> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <20021101131309.GD18364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > # william@hq.newdream.net / 2002-10-31 20:59:36 -0800: > > Appeal to whomever runs this list.... > > > > I know this has been hashed out repeatedly in the past, but this is > > getting ridiculous. While I like this list, the volume of spam / viruses > > I get from it exceeds the actual list traffic. > > through the list? i filter this list into its mailbox on the > Delivered-To: header, so anything that goes to the list should end > up in that mailbox, and i don't remember a single spam or virus > getting in the folder. I don't use anything like SA, nor any AV, > just a few maildrop rules... Hm, but they route quite a few emails > to /dev/null, so that might be it: aol, juno, msn, yahoo, to name a > few. > Not everybody is using client that allows easy filtering. In any case, you still have to download message which means extra traffic and often extra cost. Unfortunately, zsh workers do not own list server in any way and IIRC list server maintainers have been quite unresponsive in the past. To workers: what about relocating lists to sourceforge? To my impression, lists hosted there do not suffer from spam so much. -andrey