[Freeciv] Re: James 5-07-01 sucks

[Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:11:54PM -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> Reinier Post wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:29:34PM +0200, Torben Schulz wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > is there no chance to stop this annoying virus from flooding this list!?
> > > i can't believe that some listmembers are still stupid enough to open
> > > the attachment. whatever, maybe somebody could install some kind of filter
> > > on the listserver...
> 
> I'm in no danger of infection, but I'm really getting tired of downloading big
> virus files over my slow phone link.  I would like to second the motion for a
> filter to strip out large attachments.
> 
> The virus files apparently have a minimum size of something around 190,000
> bytes, so a filter of everything above (say) 180,000 bytes should suffice... 
> at
> least until the next virus springs up.  That would let people continue to send
> in patches of modest size.
> 
> 
> > I asked the 'someone' earlier today, but he hasn't replied so far.
> 
> Possibly he's having trouble with his e-mail.
> 
> 
> Nice to see that so many Windows users like Freeciv, though.

I would rather learn this from the web and ftp logs :/

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Paul Zastoupil