[Opensim-users] [OT] recent spam in this group

[Melanie Thielker]

Attachment filtering should now be enabled. Of course, spam text may
still get through but no more annoying attachments.

- M

On 31/07/2017 01:47, Han Held wrote:
> Hello
>
> I apologize for the off-topic, but I am a member of several email other 
> lists dealing with technical subjects and this is the only group I am 
> seeing the attachment weirdness show up on. I'm referring to the 
> offtopic emails with jpgs attached to them that have been showing up on 
> this list recently.
>
> Firstly, is it possible to scrub attachments before they're relayed? Can 
> someone please set that up? I'm using Thunderbird on Linux so I assume 
> (and it's only an assumption) that any malware would be limited to $HOME 
> (I'm not an expert, and could easily be wrong) but there are people on 
> windows etc also getting these messages.
>
> I have to assume that the other lists I'm on get the same spammers, and 
> since I don't see the messages on them that probably means there's a way 
> to deal with it.
>
> For the sake of being responsible and not spreading malware, I'd like to 
> request that if the admins are still extant they look into filtering out 
> binary attachments. There are alternatives (pastebin, dropbox, imgur) 
> that can be used to fit any tech support needs.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read this, and again I apologize for the OT
>
>
> Regards,
>
> -Han Held
>
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