Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:32:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:32:42 -0400 Received: from ns3.keyaccesstech.com ([209.47.245.85]:53266 "EHLO terbidium.openservices.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:32:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:32:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams To: Subject: Re: Test mail In-Reply-To: <20010730181731.A20366@pc8.lineo.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.7 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, christophe barb? wrote: > Would it not be simple and effective to filter out mail produced by > Outlook? > It sounds to me the equivalent of RBL & co. > RBL filter out mail from open relay used to spam us. > NoOutlook filter out mail from poor software/OS used to propagate viruses. > > I guess that 100% of incomming viruses in lkml come from a Outlook mailer. > And for the last two ones I'm sure. > > Christophe Um, that's just a little (LITTLE?!?) draconian/elitist. How about putting in a handler that renames EXEs attachments and EXEs in compressed files to something a little less executable? Don't get me wrong. I'm no fan of Outlook or OE, but you can't just step on people who use them. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/