I believe that this was posted here eariler.  The "filter" causes listserv
to remove any and all attachments.


Attachments= No, filter

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On 10/10/00 at 3:31 PM the talented Alex Rudd
offered the following discourse in a most eloquent manner:


>Greetings...
>
>Someone posted a virus to one of my lists, POLICE-L, yesterday.
>
>LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU is running LISTSERV(R) for NT 1.8d and I do
>have Attachments= No in the list header.  Still, this one
>slipped through.  I'd love to know why and/or whether there's
>anything (else) that can be done to prevent it from happening
>again.
>
>My first thought was that it wasn't really an attachment (for
>lack of boundary).  But this is in the message header:
>
>Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Very Funny.vbs"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Very Funny.vbs"
>
>Also, a number of subscribers reported that their anti-virus
>programs snagged the post, and they even snagged the DIGEST
>messages containing the post.
>
>Rather than include the entire message here (where it would
>only cause further concern), I've thrown it up here:
>
>http://members.home.net/lists/police-lpost.htm
>
>What you see there is exactly what I got when reading the
>post here in my VM account.
>
>Obviously, my subscribers are concerned.  Any advice on what I
>can tell them?
>
>Has anyone else dealt with this before?  Is this the first time
>someone has seen an attachment that doesn't act like an attachment?
>
>Thanks.
>
>- Alex, list owner of POLICE-L    [log in to unmask]
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>Alex Rudd                [log in to unmask]            ARS KA2ZOO
>{Standard Disclaimer}    http://www.police-l.org/

and that is what Alex Rudd said.
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