From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26210 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2002 18:51:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26166 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2002 18:51:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blv-smtpout-01.boeing.com) (192.161.36.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Jan 2002 18:51:44 -0000 Received: from blv-av-02.boeing.com ([192.54.3.92]) by blv-smtpout-01.boeing.com (8.9.2/8.8.5-M2) with ESMTP id KAA15761 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from stl-hub-01.boeing.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blv-av-02.boeing.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/MBS-AV-01) with ESMTP id KAA25520 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from XCH-SEBH-03.tx.boeing.com (xch-sebh-03.tx.boeing.com [128.166.64.73]) by stl-hub-01.boeing.com (8.11.3/8.11.3/MBS-LDAP-01) with ESMTP id g03Iper23620 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:51:40 -0600 (CST) Received: by XCH-SEBH-03.tx.boeing.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:00:16 -0600 Message-ID: From: "Stoddard, Isaac A" To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 10:51:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00103.txt.bz2 I thoroughly agree with you about filter quality. However, this is at Corporate firewall level, and admin will NOT be changing it, (so said the helpdesk). I would dearly love to be able to control my own inbound filtering, since I practice "safe hex", but that's not likely to be allowed soon. Sigh. Thanks for your to-the-point suggestions, but I can't use them right now. Isaac Stoddard Boeing Space & Communications, ISS GN&C Integration, Mail Code HM5-20, Tower II cube 5255 voice: (281) 244-4246 fax: (281)244-4413 > -----Original Message----- > From: John Peacock [SMTP:jpeacock@rowman.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:46 AM > To: Stoddard, Isaac A > Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > Subject: Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter > > "Stoddard, Isaac A" wrote: > > > > Folks, > > > > Our corporate anti-viral filters traps cygwin-announce now. Someone has > > decided that (imagine the punctuation) "setup dot exe" is a potential > virus > > vector and all list-mailed messages containing it as a character string > are > > automatically blocked. Hence, I can no longer receive cygwin-announce. > > > > Our filters can't be the only ones blocking you guys (and other good > folks' > > news) from reaching us. Would someone at your site be > > interested/able/willing to change the standard announcement text to > avoid > > mentioning that executable? > > Quality anti-viral filters should only block ATTACHEMENTS named "something > dot > exe" not just the mention of it. My suggestion is to get a new anti-virus > > program or ask your anti-virus admin to be less strident about blocking > text-only messages. This is almost certainly a "stupid admin" trick, not > a > default setting in your anti-virus (or more likely firewall) config. > > John > > -- > John Peacock > Director of Information Research and Technology > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/