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Re: OT: email attachments disabled for six hours



The FFML (fan fiction Mailing list) recently had a
differnt kind of virus problem, it randomly sent out
the ifected persons encryption key under varrious
subject headers and using the addresses from his
address to fake the sender field.

Largely harmless, but really bad on us with limited
email space since each message was 180K.


--- danspector@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Following advice about the Kiez virus attacking the
> attachment function
> of other lists, I've decided to disable email
> attachments until 1:00 AM
> PDT this evening. Presumably this will be enough
> time for the virus
> attack to have finished.
> 
> For the sake of caution, after the attachment
> function is restored, I
> would advise members not to open any file that comes
> attached to a blank
> or bland email from these lists.
> 
> If you wish to post a picture, you can still upload
> it to the files
> section and post a link.
> 
> If you wish to post a fic in HTML, you can wait or
> post it in plain-text
> format instead. Of course, if we had more fics
> being posted, that'd be
> a bigger problem, right? (grumble, nudge, nag) <g>
> 
> Thanks for your patience, and to thoth for the
> advice.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 


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