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[Ewen McNeill]

In message <45172@dsl.co.uk>, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} writes:
>Brilliant!  Now the list is permitting through Base64 encoded HTML
>containing a malicious VBScript.  (Doesn't affect me, since I'm running
>OS/2, and read my mail in a simple DOS mail reader; however, it might
>well cause problems to the OS-challenged.)

The mailing list software, much as we might like it to, doesn't appear
able to filter based on MIME types (at all), which is a shame.  OTOH it
does have a point'n'drool GUI front end, which cuts down on the number
of people having trouble subscribing/unsubscribing.

Besides which if you thought the one virus-infected attachment was a
problem you should have seen all the bounces I got back!

>It's easy enough to write a filter that preprocesses traffic before the
>exploder stage, reads the (MIME) headers, and bounces unwelcome traffic
>back to sender.

Thank you for volunteering.  :-) 

Perl or similar to run under Linux would be best.

Ewen

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Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation  www.imatix.com