As Pete noted earlier, this would not have made a difference in this case.

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:38:44 -0400 John L. Mottl said:
>I believe that this was posted here eariler.  The "filter" causes listserv
>to remove any and all attachments.
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>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:
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>>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:
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>>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/
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>and that is what Alex Rudd said.
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