Re: Eliminating Virus Spam

    I think it would be a mistake for the IETF to try to get into the
    business of protecting mailing list subscribers from virses.

I'd sure like to understand your motivation for this point of view.
Since it is, in fact, relatively straightforward to put virus scanning
in front of message distribution I would think this is exactly what we
want the IETF to do, or more precisely the IETF Secretariat to do for
those elists they manage.  The only real work in such an activity is
keeping up with the "virus updates".

Jim



On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:

    Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:51:04 -0500
    From: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd <dee3(_at_)torque(_dot_)pothole(_dot_)com>
    To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
    Subject: Re: Eliminating Virus Spam
    
    
    I think it would be a mistake for the IETF to try to get into the
    business of protecting mailing list subscribers from virses.  But the
    list membership should be protected from anti-virus software spamming
    by some combination of filters and unsubscribing those whose sites run
    such unscalable software.
    
    Donald
    
    From:  John Border <border(_at_)hns(_dot_)com>
    Message-ID:  <3A536431(_dot_)6F4A9BA1(_at_)hns(_dot_)com>
    Date:  Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:41:05 -0500
    To:  ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
    
    >    I am not that familiar with the details of how mailing list servers 
work. 
    >Is it possible to configure a mailing list server (e.g. 
majordomo(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org?)
    >to do a virus scan on an incoming mail message before forwarding it to the
    >mailing list, bouncing the mail message back to the sender if a virus is
    >detected?  (Or, since From addresses might be faked, maybe just tossing it 
is
    >the right answer.)  If such a capability doesn't exist, maybe it should...
    >
    >John