Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g5I39xX08649; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:09:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:09:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <003701c21674$af782820$5b69f7a5@oemcomputer> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:838] Filters to be Implemented on the NIFL Lists X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2424 Lines: 54 Hi, Everyone: This purpose of this message is to inform you that, beginning June 18, NIFL plans to activate an automatic filter on this listserv (and on all NIFL listservs). The filter will protect us all from computer viruses transmitted by e-mail. The filter has been tested on the NIFL-ESL list and has had good results. Please Note: The filter requires that all messages be posted in PLAIN TEXT. In addition, it will reject any messages that have attachments. The following message from the NIFL system/list administrator provides further detail: "The test of the attachment filter being used on the NIFL-ESL discussion list has gone well. The filter has caught, as of last Friday (6/14), 34 potentially virus infected messages and stopped them from being distributed to the list membership. There were six additional messages with potentially virus infected attachments caught over the weekend. Based on these results NIFL has directed that the filter be implemented on all discussion lists. File attachments will no longer be allowed through the discussion lists once the filter is in place. The filter will also enforce the "plain text messages only" rule. Email messages sent as MIME attachments or HTML mail will be rejected (these types of emails include the message body as an attachment...hence the filter rejects them). If list members send messages as or with attachments they will receive a notice from the list server advising them that attachments are not permitted and that they should resend their messages as "plain text" messages. Implementation of this filter will greatly reduce the possibility of virus infected messages being passed through the discussion lists. It will similarly reduce the possibility of virus infected messages being part of the archives. Please note that virus infected messages currently do exist in the list server archives. If users have their subscriptions set to DIGEST format they may receive infected messages when the next digest format message is sent from the list server so they should beware. Once the filter is in place infected messages shouldn't make it into the list server archives (or the on-line HTML archives for that matter). We will attempt to remove the infected messages from the list server archive." Any questions: Please contact me off the list at macorley1@earthlink.net Thanks! -Mary Ann Corley Povracelit List Moderator
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