From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.discuss,gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: please gmane.org stop forwarding windows viruses Date: 09 Dec 2002 06:12:28 +0800 Sender: gmane-discuss-admin@hawk.netfonds.no Message-ID: <87bs3wcg8j.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <20021130181051.CVAH1440.out008.verizon.net@Hxeww> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039386844 24619 80.91.224.249 (8 Dec 2002 22:34:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18L9zv-0006Ou-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:34:03 +0100 Original-Received: from hawk.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.246]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18LA9i-00051s-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:44:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=hawk.netfonds.no) by hawk.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18L9lE-00050h-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:18:52 +0100 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by hawk.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18L9lE-00050V-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:18:52 +0100 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18L9zu-0006OZ-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:34:02 +0100 Original-To: gmane-discuss@hawk.netfonds.no X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18L9zt-0006OQ-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:34:01 +0100 Original-Path: jidanni.org!news Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tc218-187-76-101.2-4.pl.apol.com.tw Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039386841 24528 218.187.76.101 (8 Dec 2002 22:34:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:34:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: gmane-discuss-admin@hawk.netfonds.no X-Mailman-Version: 1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Id: X-BeenThere: gmane-discuss@hawk.netfonds.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.discuss:2332 gmane.emacs.bugs:4027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4027 The article in my References has gmane.org's "X-Spam-Report: Message includes Microsoft executable program * 10.0 -- BODY: Likely a Windows virus" You might take the purest approach and say that it was the gmane.emacs.bugs (bug-gnu-emacs) list's responsibility not to forward it. But if you check their headers, you'll see they test for spam too but it passed. Therefore, instead of hoping each group be spam experts, can gmane please make this tiny "kludge against the purist approach" and not put any message that causes "X-Spam-Report: Message includes Microsoft executable program * 10.0 -- BODY: Likely a Windows virus" on gmane?! It's not that I will get infected. It's that one or two of these 400KB messages, and my modem session is wasted. Yes you are so kind as to add a gmane.spam.detected Newsgroups header. We talked about how my software (noffle) was so unreasonable to be in such a hurry as to not check each header before down load. This you did not accept so how about: actually I enjoy reading spam, but not viruses. So will you put a gmane.virus.detected header on too? Ah ha, you expect most folks to kill any message cross posted to gmane.spam.detected, when indeed that Newsgroups line is redundant, as they could just kill on high spam scores found in the other headers. Anyway, leafnode is too slow for my 10 minute modem calls. Noffle is the only one fast enough, and it does it by not checking headers. Things would be fine if gmane didn't think it so important to forward Microsoft viruses. I mean what are the chances that it is a false positive? Give me one excuse for forwarding them. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780