Please don't post Microsoft Windows Viruses or Worms to the mailing list (Was: Re: [kaffe] Your details)

[Jim Pick]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:47:49 +0200
"Dalibor Topic" <robilad at kaffe.org> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
> 
> Jim Pick wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:03:12 -0700
> > Jim White <jim at pagesmiths.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I'm getting a slew of those bogus emails, but at least my system won't 
> >>be sending any.
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, there's 147 messages in the moderation queue right now.  :-(
> > 
> > We're just moderating posts that appear to come from people not on the
> > list.  If a worm is going to be smart enough to harvest emails from the
> > mailing list archives, and use those to fake posts to the list, mailman
> > is going to let those through.  I might have to add some additional
> > layers of defenses...
> 
> would it be possible to automatically block & bounce e-mails with 
> attachments that are windows executables (PIF, EXE, VBS, whetever they 
> have on that weird platform)?

I enabled the system_filter.exim filter in my Exim config, which should
get rid of most of the nasty attachments.  Hopefully it works - tell me
if you see legitimate email getting bounced.

Cheers,

 - Jim