Dear Tony/lis-medical
If all messages had to come through me, as list owner, for vetting, I'd
never find time for the day job - I already have to deal with huge numbers
of error messages. All I can practically do is rely on people to follow
JISCmail guidance, and contact them when they don't
Susan Howard
Owner, lis-medical
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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:19 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Attachments and viruses
For what it's worth, lis-medical is the only open list I'm on that permits
attachments. An American-based list I subscribe to strips out everything
except bare text.
Tony McSean
Liz James
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05/02/2001 10:37
Please respond to
Liz James
For what it's worth, I personally (and this not necessarily the view of my
employer) support Tony. We had a virus last year caught from some idiot
who sent
an infected attachment to the list. My PC was tied up nearly all day being
sorted
out and no, I didn't open the attachment either. I know these things can
happen
by accident and it's not malicious, but the list rules clearly state that
you
shouldn't send attachments no matter how clean your systems may be. We too
have
umpteen layers of virus protection but the viruses are proliferating more
quickly
than the cures can be found. It's a tough world, I'm afraid!
Best wishes to all.
Liz
[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Perhaps you should teach your students email etiquette before letting
them
> loose on their projects. If by your message you mean that I've stopped a
> lot of people from opening a Word attachment sent to them unsolicited
from
> someone they've never heard of - then good. Sounds like you still
haven't
> got the message that you absolutely mustn't go posting Word attachments
to
> public lists and that anyone who opens something like your student sent
is
> ignorant or bonkers.
>
> My machine got infected with a worm last year despite having three layers
> of virus checker between it and the internet line. I found the cure
> reasonably easily on the web and no lasting damage was done but it took
me
> the best part of half a day to sort it all out and has left me sensibly
> careful about what I open in the way of attachments.
>
> Tony
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Liz James
Technical Services Librarian
King's Fund
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London W1G 0AN
Tel: 020-7307 2559
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Unless my cats are there to welcome me."
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