[Full-Disclosure] Re: viruses being sent to this list

["Riad S. Wahby" <rsw@xxxxxxxx>]

John Cartwright <johnc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I see it, there are two means of regulating malicious content 
> from spoofed subscribed addresses. One, we moderate the list. Two, we 
> use anti-virus or other scanning to try to prevent this data flow. 
> Let's consider the effect of these options:

On the Cypherpunks node I run, every email is demimed[1] before it's
sent to list subscribers.  In my opinion, (almost) every mailing list
ought to do the same.  Let people who want to transfer files use a
more appropriate medium (http, ftp, bittorrent, whatever) or UUEncode
them.

[1] http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html

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Riad Wahby
rsw@xxxxxxxx
MIT VI-2 M.Eng

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