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Hello PLUG ! Replying to the remarks: > The latest round of email viruses forge "From:" addresses. > All it takes for such a virus to hit this list is for an infected > box to have both the list and one subscriber to it in their > address book. Another necessity: An unprotected server acting as a relay. If the PLUG newsgroup server had effective AV S/W, then the virus would have been excised from the submission to the PLUG list and not passed on to the subscribers. ... snippage .... > Basically, you're implying that Linux is not ready for the > desktop because a LUG mailing list was the recipient of an > infected message which was sent by an infected Windows > box?! That wasn't my point - The lack of protection evidenced by the infected PLUG Digest #1106 may keep potential Linux users away from a useful source of information about the utility of Linux. I'm wunna dose guys. Best regards, George Langford, Sc.D. amenex@amenex.com http://wwww.amenex.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug