Re: Virus mails

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Arne Blankerts wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 20:50, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > > not that it's prolly embarrassing enough to sent a virus mail to a list, > > > we might actually consider adding a virus-scan to the incoming smtp... > > > or would that kill the server due to load? > > > The virus mails are not coming from those people (Wez, Rasmus, etc.), > > but from someone posing as those guys, so this is not a problem on > > those guys' machines... > > Good point - I should have checked the mail header for that before > posting... > > But I still believe that is even more a reason to add virus scanning > before a mail is distributed to the list. There are not really resources for this, we send just too much mail out. regards, Derick -- "Interpreting what the GPL actually means is a job best left to those that read the future by examining animal entrails." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ International PHP Magazine http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------