richard offer wrote: >Not that it should affect the decision, but the list appeared to have been >"blacklisted" for a week by our corporate spam filters (apparantly due to >propagating viruses), I missed any messages between the 6-16 September (I >only notced after an unsubscribe message from mailman). > >If the list becomes overloaded with SPAM/virii, then other corporate >entities may start to block it. > The LSM list was hit hard with the Sobig.F viurs, and that was our fault. Mid-way through the Sobig.F storm, we put in a filter to stop it. Fortunately, that filterhas continued to work in the current Swen virus storm, as I have not seen any Swen instances here. And for that matter, since that filter was put in September 8, there have been 4 spam leaked through (including manboylove), and zero viruses. For perspective, during that same period, there were 18 posts discussing the spam & virus problem :) So while there was a historic problem, it's pretty good since Sept. 8. Again, I will share the filter with any individuals who think they can improve it. I'm just not posting it publicly to avoid helping the spammers. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/ Chief Scientist, Immunix http://immunix.com http://www.immunix.com/shop/
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