From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 7:21:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA4A37B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 07:21:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4AEIdi01710; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:18:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105101418.f4AEIdi01710@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Meyer Cc: "Parag Dabke" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please delete mail with subject 'Homepage' In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 May 2001 08:10:12 CDT." <15098.37684.723415.348635@guru.mired.org> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:18:39 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mike mentioned, > Parag Dabke types: > > I received this virus from list 'questions@freebsd.org'. > > Is it possible to have virus check for the mailing lists. > You might consider running virus checks at your end. Disabling the > ability for your mailreader to automatically execute code sent from an > untrusted source is also a good idea. Too weak. *Not* disabling your mailreader from automatically executing code is a *bad* idea . . . hawk, still amazed that anyone ever shipped a mailreader that does so by default -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message