samba - Nov 2003 - Just a thought, all this "swen" stuff, this list

It seems anyone posting to this list gets a deluge (and I mean a
deluge) of virus infected windows garbage.  It's basically enough to
ruin any email address you sign up to the list with; it doesn't matter
if you have a virus scanner integrated with your MTA, I really don't
want to see 200 virus notifications a day because i posted to this
list.  I have been getting about 20MB of swen a day since i first
posted here.

Not to espouse conspiracy theories, but it really seems like this list
is under attack.  Can there be sme warning about this on the list
signup page? Like, "Use a throwaway email address for this list", etc.

I'm not complaining, just that I think some sort of warning is in
order here.  This swen stuff is totally out of control.

I agree, I found that I've been hammered having posted to a number of mail
lists.

Alan
 

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[mailto:samba-bounces+samba=brightheadtechnology.com@lists.samba.org] On
Behalf Of Initech
Sent: 27 November 2003 19:30
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Just a thought, all this "swen" stuff, this list




It seems anyone posting to this list gets a deluge (and I mean a
deluge) of virus infected windows garbage.  It's basically enough to
ruin any email address you sign up to the list with; it doesn't matter
if you have a virus scanner integrated with your MTA, I really don't
want to see 200 virus notifications a day because i posted to this
list.  I have been getting about 20MB of swen a day since i first
posted here.

Not to espouse conspiracy theories, but it really seems like this list
is under attack.  Can there be sme warning about this on the list
signup page? Like, "Use a throwaway email address for this list", etc.

I'm not complaining, just that I think some sort of warning is in
order here.  This swen stuff is totally out of control.
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On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 06:30, Initech wrote:
> It seems anyone posting to this list gets a deluge (and I mean a
> deluge) of virus infected windows garbage.  
> I'm not complaining, just that I think some sort of warning is in
> order here.  This swen stuff is totally out of control.
Before this thread gets out of hand (again...) may I ask everybody to
read the listinfo page (linked from the bottom of every mail):

...read the
instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

And in particular, the Mailing List Etiquette link:
http://www.samba.org/samba/ml-etiquette.html

Samba is used (quite surprisingly) by Windows users.  Some are so
unfortunate as to use (by their choice or otherwise) MS Outlook.  

Andrew Bartlett

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