Guest guest Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 For those of you that have not seen the message on the web site, you may want to take a look at this: http://groups.yahoo.com/local/service.html Although it is not terribly likely that any of the messages to this group will have such a title, it is still a possibility. For those of you without web access... due to problems with virus transmission through groups that allow attachments (and since AutAdvo and Treehouse do not, we should be exempt, but Yahoo... ah, never mind ::grumble:, Yahoo is temporarily blocking posts via email that have one of these titles: # test # hi # hello # Mail Delivery System # Mail Transaction Failed # Server Report # Status # Error So, if you send a post with one of those, you will get an error message from Yahoo. It is a cheap-donkey way of filtering virus posts-- a lot less CPU intensive than actually scanning attachments for a virus. If I were running Yahoogroups, rather than blindly denying posts with those titles, I would have it deny posts WITH ATTACHMENTS using those titles, and only to groups that allow attachments (those that do not will have the attachments stripped anyway). Better yet, I would have it scan all attachments before they are distributed. But they did not ask me. I don't object to actions to limit virus transmission, or even to protect Yahoogroups from the increase in bandwidth that the virus uses. I object to poorly thought out limitations, like blindly rejecting messages with certain titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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