Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:18:39 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "Parag Dabke" <paragdabke@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please delete mail with subject 'Homepage' Message-ID: <200105101418.f4AEIdi01710@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 May 2001 08:10:12 CDT." <15098.37684.723415.348635@guru.mired.org>
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mike mentioned, > Parag Dabke <paragdabke@hotmail.com> 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
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