Re: virus and/or spam alert

[Michael Porter <mbt@SYMPATICO.CA>]

Bill Halpern, manager of the CHEMED-L list has changed the way they handle
mail in order to combat these viruses:

> Dear Subscribers,
>
> Because of the number of viral attacks,
> I have changed the list parameters to do the following:
>
> 1. No attachments will be accepted. If you include an attachment,
> your message will be returned to you and will not reach the list.
>
> 2. There is a size limit of 200 lines for each message. Hopefully,
> any included worms or viruses will be longer than that. This
> means that when you are replying to a long message, you must
> remove the non essential lines.
>
> 3. No HTML will be accepted. Please send your message in plain text.
>
> I am sorry that I must take these steps to protect the list.
> If your message is returned to you saying that you have an attachment,
> when you did not send one, you probably have a virus and should contact
> your computer specialists.

These all sound like proper usenet/listserv etiquette anyway... Perhaps the
PHYS-L list needs to do something similar.

Mike

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Michael Porter
Colonel By Secondary School
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada