From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 30 10: 3:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from osi-east2.nersc.gov (osi-east2.nersc.gov [128.55.6.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC8F37B401 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:03:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.nersc.gov (gemini.nersc.gov [128.55.16.111]) by osi-east2.nersc.gov (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA00513 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:03:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.nersc.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gemini.nersc.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51CCA3B19E for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:53:29 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this is getting ridiculous In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:44:05 EST. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1880339676P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:53:29 -0800 From: Eli Dart Message-Id: <20011030175329.51CCA3B19E@gemini.nersc.gov> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-1880339676P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I realize I'm proposing a solution that I don't personally have to implement, but there is a simple way out of this: any address that punts out this kind of garbage is silently dropped from the list. Period. Do not pass go, etc. Several other lists (including bugtraq) do this as a matter of course....I think it's worth doing. I also like disabling html email...... my $0.02 --eli In reply to "David Kutcher" : > Could someone change the mailing list to not support attachments or to limit > message sizes? (I think attachments:no would be a much better idea) > > The only way we'd be getting more viruses if we were using AOL accounts... > > and maybe also disabling html emails? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message --==_Exmh_-1880339676P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: This is a comment. iD8DBQE73ukZLTFEeF+CsrMRAmVhAJ0abCaAL10z2FunkN31nc7tMj/ooQCfeXfu J/z3Uoldg+oN8p1hHRH0PSA= =yWZ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1880339676P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message