I have my external lists (public lists) set to attachments=no, to reduce virus propagation. However, someone pointed out to me last week that one of this lists is allowing certain attachments anyway. Have not had a chance to try to find out why (my listserv admin stuff is one of many jobs, and often gets the back burner). However, this does, in general, seem to help with the virus issue. If anyone knows why some attachments are still getting through even though I've configured the keyword this way, I'd love to hear about it. (Guessing it's just non-standards-compliant email clients, but that's just a guess.) Oh, also, on our private lists, I have specified certain filetypes I want to allow, and that seems to work very well (word and gif and excel, I think, are the ones I've allowed thus far). Shannon :-) -----Original Message----- From: Rob Carpenter [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:52 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Questions about attachments and listserv What is the take on listserv and sending out file attachments? I have F-secure installed and working with listserv ( Incoming ) and we are also using Nortons to protect the server. We are worried about viruses being sent out. Are a lot of you sending out attachments ? ************************************************************************ ****** Rob Carpenter Unix System Administrator Phone: 516-562-5907 mailto:[log in to unmask] or mailto:[log in to unmask] Prime Directive: The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few or the one. ************************************************************************ ****** ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ Any views or opinions are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of CMP Media. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message please do not read, copy, use or disclose this communication and notify the sender immediately. It should be noted that any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking action or reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ Any views or opinions are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of CMP Media. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message please do not read, copy, use or disclose this communication and notify the sender immediately. It should be noted that any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking action or reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. ________________________________________________________________________ __________________