viruses from mailinglist

[Steve Searle]

Around 02:11am on Thursday, March 11, 2004 (UK time), Jim Cornette scrawled:

<rant>

> Thanks for posting what was in the zip. I never opened it to see.
> 
No thanks from me - I thought it was a waste of bandwith.  And why two
people thought it was necessary to requote the whole thing I can't begin
to imagine.

> Having the virus containing posts within the list archive is probably 
> not a good thing to have. If people that are running windows happen onto 
> the site and open the attachments, it would not help with attempting to 
> increase Linux usage numbers. That is, unless you tell them to download 
> the installation iso files, instruct them on how to burn the CDs, before 
> reading the archives.
> 
Was it established that it came from the list.  Virus infected emails
usually spoof the from address.  Is it actually in the archives?

</rant>

Steve

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