[Freeciv-Dev] Re: All these viruses coming through freeciv-dev

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks like spamassassin on the server mysteriously died.  I restarted
it and updated Clam AV, so I'm hopeful that this will block these
things.

-- John

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 01:59:43AM +0300, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> >
> >>It seems that Per's mail address gets special treatment; mails
> >>seemingly coming from Per are coming through with viruses. I've got six
> >>of them in a couple of days. And I could actually believe that Per uses
> >>subject "New changes" for freeciv-devmail... what I do not believe is
> >>that he would leave body empty and just add attachment...
> >
> >Yes, this sucks :(
> 
>  Yes, my bayesian filter is fast learning that anything from you is 
> spam. You should sent more ham mails, extra good patches for freeciv and 
> such :)
> 
> >Someone (on this list, perhaps?) got their machine infested with an email
> >worm, and spews out virus mails because they have freeciv-dev posts in one
> >of their mailboxes.
> 
>  My guess is that someone else opened it as they seem to come more 
> repidly now...
>  I also noticed that those viruses are actually archived at 
> complete.org (anything sent as just 'per' instead of full name since 
> 26.4). I even saw some more there than I have received myself.
> 
> >
> >I will change my email address soon and resubscribe, and then this problem
> >will go away as far as "per@xxxxxxxxxxx" is concerned.
> >
> 
>  I just hope that you have other reasons for this switch than avoiding 
> these virusspam problems. I'd hate to think that they force someone to 
> take such actions.
> 
> 
>  - Caz, not completely sober
>