[gs-devel] gs-devel Digest etc + A sugestion for maintainers

[SaGS]

Hi,

If your question is why do these mailings come at all, well, that's probably 
because you are subscribed to the gs-devel mailing list (I suppose you 
already know that, including this here only for completion...)

If your question is about why there are multiple messages, aggregated, I 
think this is because of the option 'Set digest mode' being set. If you want 
to receive individual messages, you can change that option at 
http://ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/mailman/options/gs-devel (needs login). Note 
the various ways to subscribe/ get help/ unsubscribe, both via a web 
interface or through e-mail, are listed if you view the full headers of 
e-mails you receive from the list (there are headers like 'List-Archive:'/ 
'List-Subscribe:'/ etc).

But most probably your question is why do you receive nonsensical posts from 
the list. Well, these are internet viruses/ worms that manage to pass 
through the virus/ spam filters; unfortunately these filters cannot be 100% 
accurate. That's the case with the example you provide 'Re: approved text' 
from Dec/30, so DON'T OPEN the attachments referred there by their URLs.

And now a suggestion for the administrators: why not reduce the max allowed 
size for attachments? In the old days (those of gs-cvs, before it became 
gs-commits), postings with attachments larger that 12k were held for 
moderation. Me, I was notified of the fact and always canceled the 
submission; not the most convenient, but at least those viruses were not 
sent to every subscriber. Now I think this limit is much larger (over 100k) 
and allows viruses like Netsky and others to pass through. Even better, if 
possible, would be to completely reject e-mails that have non-text 
attachments (= with MIME type other than 'text/*') or even reject any 
attachment. When images/ etc are needed, most probably it's about a possible 
bug and Bugzilla is a much better place for these.


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From: "John A. Wallace" <jw72253 at verizon.net>
Sent: Monday, 16 January 2012 03:57
To: <gs-devel at ghostscript.com>
Subject: Re: [gs-devel] gs-devel Digest, Vol 14, Issue 9

What is the purpose of my getting a file like this, which appears to have no
meaningful information in it, or is something missing?  I get quite a few of
these.  Thanks.


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