[vorbis virus spam] Any list ops ever thought... was re: [vorbis] Hey

[C h a r l e s T. H o u g h t b y I V]

...about maybe stripping all zip, exe, pif, etc  attachments from emails 
coming to vorbis at xiph.org? Granted, Ryan Ashley has a Very Valid Point and I 
agree wholeheartedly about "Any idiot who opens a pif, exe, bat, com, or any 
other executable file deserves what they get." and would actually encourage 
these feeble minded folks to "Please, Open it and Darwinate your dumb self 
right off the net". There are minimum aptitude levels for driving, there 
should be for net use as well (could be too extreme...).

Alas, from a client and server bandwidth perspective, it might be advantageous 
to strip that crap off emails right at the list server and just have a policy 
of "if you have something you have to send, attach it with a different 
filename like xyzdata.zi-, 'inline' it (error logs and the like), or even 
better, post it to a website and/or have it available upon request (via 
client to client email rather than client to list to everyone email).". Then, 
the offending attachment would only eat ONE email worth of xiph's bandwidth 
vs. N where N=NoOfSubscribers+WWW_ML_ArchiveHits.

Also, it would have an added prophylactic effect on virus spread :)

Just my .02. 
I have never run a mailinglist so I don't know if this is possible or not.


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Charles T. Houghtby IV
IT Manager, Rapid Appraisal, INC

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