Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g5INZ5X07264; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:35:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:35:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <v04210101b93571db7842@[130.203.165.152]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barbara Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:569] Attachment Filter in place... X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2223 Lines: 49 Dear NIFL-workplace subscribers, Recently, we've had some virus-infected messages on this list. In an effort to avoid this from happening in the future, NIFL's technology guy, Lee Mann, has put an attachment filter in place. As a result of this filter, no messages with attached files will be allowed to be posted to NIFL lists. This will affect those who send attached files, including those using HTML or MIME language. So, please read the following message from Lee. And, feel free to ask questions about the filter. If you have any problems with this new filter, please let me know. If I don't know the answer, I'll pass it on to Lee. Cheers, Barb Van Horn NIFL-Workplace list co-moderator ___________________________________________ From: Mann, Lashley Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 10:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Attachment filter implementation... ..You should let your list members know that 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 your 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). I will attempt to remove the infected messages from the list server archive. Lee
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