I personally believe a list like this should disallow mail with _any_
attachments. A bounce reply to the sender would be a courtesy - not that
most senders of such mail deserve any - to the few innocents.
Bob
Martin Probst wrote:
>>Could someone that runs the xml-dev list please take steps to squelch the
>>spam/viruses being sent to the list? Or at the very least stop allowing
>>these type of attachments?
>
>
> Plus, while dealing with that, you could set up the mailing list to
> return an error message when swallowing something like that. It
> currently silently ignores messages with zip attachments. I think it's
> still bad style to just eat up messages if they aren't clearly spam or
> viruses.
>
> Martin
