From: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Virii on vger.kernel.org lists
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:33:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1661.996618791@ISI.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:17:13 BST." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107312312360.31582-100000@infradead.org>
> > Better than that, simply strip all non-text MIME attachments, or
> > bounce the messages containing them. End of story.
>
>Two problems with that:
>
> 1. Some virii are text attachments. Your fix doesn't deal wioth them.
I'm not aware of the TEXT/PLAIN viruses (ignoring jokes, er,
social comments, about the GPL). Could you point me to a sample?
> 2. The maintainer of the XXX driver just uploaded a large patch that
> fixes a major bug in their driver to the mailing list, and zip'd
> it up to reduce its size. You just bounced it...
I recall from past discussions that there's considerable
sentiment on l-k that zip'd patches are undesirable. If the patch is
inconveniently large, it can be split into several messages, or placed
on an FTP server. Inconvenient for the developer, maybe, but better
for the list as a whole.
Separately, I think we've spent enough time with the off-topic
topic. Perhaps we can move the discussion offline?
Craig Milo Rogers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-31 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-29 22:20 Test mail Mailing Server
2001-07-30 1:50 ` Test mail :: DO NOT FSKING OPEN THE ATTACHMENT God
2001-07-30 3:24 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-07-30 15:45 ` Jim Potter
2001-07-30 1:53 ` Test mail Anton Altaparmakov
2001-07-30 4:02 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 6:09 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-07-30 6:28 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-07-30 7:10 ` Lew Wolfgang
2001-07-30 8:41 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-07-31 23:08 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-07-30 9:45 ` Chris Crowther
2001-07-30 6:29 ` Alexander V. Bilichenko
2001-07-30 11:07 ` Paul Mundt
2001-07-30 11:45 ` john slee
2001-07-30 11:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-30 12:07 ` Paul Mundt
2001-07-30 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-30 12:23 ` Paul Mundt
2001-07-30 12:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-30 7:28 ` Riley Williams
2001-07-30 16:17 ` christophe barbé
2001-07-30 16:32 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-30 17:22 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-07-30 17:38 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-30 18:20 ` Justin Guyett
2001-07-30 21:14 ` Horst von Brand
2001-07-31 7:27 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
[not found] ` <9k48ju$94b$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-07-30 19:21 ` Colonel
2001-07-30 17:56 ` Jim Potter
2001-07-30 18:00 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-08-01 0:18 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-08-01 11:56 ` szonyi calin
2001-07-30 17:25 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-07-31 12:27 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-07-31 18:02 ` Virii on vger.kernel.org lists Riley Williams
2001-07-31 18:12 ` OT: " Craig Milo Rogers
2001-07-31 19:12 ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-31 21:30 ` OT: " Paul G. Allen
2001-07-31 22:17 ` Riley Williams
2001-07-31 22:31 ` Thomas Duffy
2001-07-31 22:47 ` Alan Shutko
2001-07-31 22:33 ` Craig Milo Rogers [this message]
2001-07-31 23:06 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-02 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-01 21:07 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-08-01 21:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-01 21:57 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-08-02 5:38 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-02 5:44 ` Miles Lane
2001-08-02 13:49 ` john slee
2001-08-02 0:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-01 21:20 ` Justin Guyett
2001-08-02 1:57 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-07 15:07 ` Dick Streefland
2001-07-31 19:01 ` Kent Borg
2001-07-31 19:18 ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-31 21:27 ` Ian Stirling
2001-07-31 21:50 ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-31 22:49 ` Alan Olsen
2001-07-31 22:41 ` Riley Williams
2001-07-31 22:54 ` [OT] " William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-31 23:19 ` Riley Williams
2001-07-31 23:31 ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-31 23:30 ` Riley Williams
2001-07-31 23:51 ` [OT] Virii (sic) Guest section DW
2001-08-01 4:03 ` PCMCIA IDE_CS in 2.4.7 Alan Olsen
2001-08-01 3:37 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-01 5:42 ` Alan Olsen
2001-08-02 14:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-02 19:07 ` Alan Olsen
2001-08-02 17:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-02 19:21 ` Alan Olsen
2001-08-02 20:48 ` Alan Olsen
2001-08-16 0:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-08-01 6:58 ` [OT] Virii (sic) Riley Williams
2001-08-01 8:13 ` [Ridiculously OT] " David Huen
2001-08-02 7:33 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-02 10:04 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-08-01 8:56 ` [OT] " Nadav Har'El
2001-08-01 9:13 ` Alessandro Suardi
2001-08-01 10:38 ` Wakko Warner
2001-08-01 10:44 ` Jean-Luc
2001-08-02 1:57 ` Johan Kullstam
2001-08-01 10:03 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-08-02 3:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-31 22:00 ` Virii on vger.kernel.org lists Matti Aarnio
2001-07-31 22:16 ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-08-01 10:49 ` Dominik Kubla
2001-08-01 11:04 ` Dominik Kubla
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