Listowner, please.

[Daisuke Sasaki]

Jean, before commenting, a MIME-formated e-mail like yours should be stopped.  It is true that some of virus mail is related to a MIME-formated or X-HTML or text-enriched mail. A wise internet users has already configure his or her mail software to automatically delete such mail, and your valuable comment may be disregarded by them :-) .

Anyway, as long as I remember correctly, the list server system that this mailing list is currently using cannot add some phrase such as [ xxxx ] to the subject line of each mail.  I know that some list server system like Majordomo can add a name, but apparently this mailing list is not managed by Majordomo.

Only thing we can do is to make the sorter more elaborate, I think.  But, anyway, a mailing list is the most "effective" in spreading virus mail.  I've already received several viruses sent through mailing lists.  The only way is that each of us should be more cautioned by upgrading software and having anti-virus software.


Daisuke

At 0:07 AM -0500 01.12.6, Jean Boutcher wrote:
> This message is in MIME format.  Since your mail reader does not understand
> this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
>
> ----__JNP_000_5cf2.3163.4bdb
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Because of computer virus warnings, most of us are being
> cautious about opening mail from individuals we do not know.
> ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings alerted TV viewers yesterday
> about computer virus around the world. Had I not recognized
> your name, or Adam's name, for that matter, I would have
> deleted an email in no time. It would, therefore, be nice if an
> abbreviated list name appeared in the subject line to help us
> identify the source as being from this list.  I am a listowner
> of five mailing lists myself.  I comply with my subscribers'
> concerns.  If [SLLING-L] is too long, how about " [Ling] "
> which, in my opinion, would leave more room for individual
> subject matter but still be an easy identifier. Is this possible?
> If not possible at all, I have to unsubscribe in that __not__ all
> anti-virus programs protect 100% emails infected SANS any
> attachment.  Thank you for your kind consideration of this matter.
>
> Regards,
> Jean Boutcher
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:34:42 -0500 Paul Cowley <PCowley at ROGERS.COM>
> writes:
>> del slling-l pcowley at terpsnet.com
>>
>> --
>> Up thumb, Paul Cowley
>> PCowley at rogers.com

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