Actions to prevent VIRUS ...

From: Rafael Santillan (santillan@ciateq.mx)
Date: Tue Dec 08 1998 - 17:11:44 EET


Dear listers and Owner

As you can see it, I am back to my point again, the sending of files to everybody is still a problem for many reasons. Many of us we do not keep up with the latest Antivirus program for economic and several other reasons. I was one of the luckiest that erased the mail and file without to open it, because I don't have antivirus programs.

Just think about this, it is very easy to send an invitation to everybody to a presentation of a program in central or west the States, but how many people can really handle to move that far (if we are listers in Europe, Malaysia, South America, etc.) I rather suggest to mention to everybody about this " demonstration " and send to the ones that can really go the file, and do not bother the rest of the listers.

We have to be more conscious and do not send files to everybody without asking if they wanted or not. Maybe this is a good time to do something about it, something like in force some rules to the sending info to the list.
I work for a relatively large R&D center, and we have to ask permission to the Netmaster before sending a mail to "everybody", and in my opinion is working fine, we don't have too much rubbish mail moving around.
so I suggest in a constructive way some ideas.

1.- In force virus checking before sending files.

2. Ask the owner if we can send to everybody a file.

3. send files to "everybody" only if there is the real possibility that everybody may like it (something very difficult to judge in my opinion), or ask if everybody would like to receive it.
    (this can be nasty because there is going to be a lot of answers jamming the mail saying YES I WANT IT)the trick in here is that we should send the answer directly to the one offering the file and not to everybody in the list.

3.- Place the files in a site like Elaine kindly offered a few weeks ago, and anybody interested can go and download it.

4.- ... put your's and let's have a Nice and civilized mail list.

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