On Tue, 5 Dec 89 18:07:45 EST A. Harry Williams said: >First we had the CHRISTMA EXEC, and now we have the DIR EXEC. Both >have had a negative impact on the network. Fortunately, both have not >been as serious as they had the potential. In both cases, explosive >propagation has been done via NAMES files, but I know of no case in either >where one of those NAMES files caused distribution over a major Listserv >List. However, it is only a matter of time. ... Don't believe it didn't happen Harry... I recall getting a few transferred files to me as LSV postmaster since nearly all my lists are set to Files= No or (Files=Yes and Formcheck= Yes). CHRISTMA EXEC was one of those files. These lists are L-VMCTR and IBM-MAIN; they are large and/or peered. After all, I have NAMES file entries for quite a few lists to separate incoming/outgoing mail into "list NOTEBOOK A" files. So, the possibility that a list was "infected" by a CHRISTMA EXEC seems quite high given these past events. Luckily, lists were monitored, shutdown or changed to Files= No back then (it just didn't get out of hand). >Harry Gary