> You could try the L-Soft website.  The main LISTSERV product page has a full
> listing of features

Yes, well, what they have on "the web" not infrequently disagrees with what
has been said via e-mail, or is available via GET or ftp, and it is not
unusual for the "facts" to differ as to how you accesses them.  And I don't
like "web stuff" anyway as it is entirely too mutable (one hour it is this,
the next hour it is ... (hey, not our fault, did you check it two seconds
ago? oops, we forgot the last microsecond update!).

> > If that is correct, why is it correct?  Improvements are only for the
> > currently most popular platforms and everyone else can go hang (AFD
> > anyone?)?
>
> Probably because the anti-virus component is provided by a third party, the
> development of which is out of L-Soft's hands.

Naif that I am, I rather thought that L-Soft developed its own material for
the special applications required for LISTSESRV.  If that is not the case,
why should anyone pay for L-Soft material?

> In any case, your best defence is configuring your list appropriately
> (Attachments=NO, Sizelim=xxx).  Remember, and anti-virus scanner is only as
> good as the last update...and viruses generally propagate faster than the
> updates.

Did all that long ago; viruses do not get through on my lists (which is
more than can be said for LSTOWN-L (I don't care whether it was the fault
of peach.ease.lsoft.com or the peered SEARN site, it got through)). Those
features, and they work well, do not depend upon analysing an item to see
whether it *might* contain a virus/worm/whatever, they simply block all
items with listowner set specifics.  They work great, have had few
complaints about minimal restrictions (kudos for *never* distributing a
virus on very active lists).

We assume that this new, proactive, LISTSERV antivirus stuff is vastly
superior to what the listowner could already acheive with existing
features.  If that is the case, why is it restricted to certain platforms,
if it is?   Does L-SOFT sell its own material, or only what it can glean
from others?

If L-SOFT is buying "antivirus" stuff from others, well, that means it
can devote itself to changing the program so that "resent-subject" is
always stripped, doesn't it?

Douglas Winship
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