[ale] Once again, how about a virus scanner on the mailing list server?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 10:09 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> I received a "bounce check" email from the list today because gmail
> bounces emails that have viruses attached to them. Looking through the
> list of emails that the email included I would say a lot of people got
> this message today. Had the bounce check email not come through we
> would have all been dropped from the list without even knowing about
> it. If emails were innoculated before they are put in the ale at ale.org
> outgoing queue then such a thing would not occur.


How about fwd'ing a copy of said email so that we can see what the heck
you are yak'ing about. ;-)

Based on your description above, it sounds like the "bounce check" was a
virus or spam email.  ALE doesn't send bounce checks to multiple
recipients at the same time.

-Jim P.