Klarinet Archive - Posting 001418.txt from 1999/03

From: "John F. Clark" <jclark@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Server administration and viruses
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:07:11 -0500

To Mark Charette, regarding your post below: I congratulate you on your
astuteness as a server administrator and on your willingness to offer good
advice. Keep up the good work, though clothed in your guise as a clarinet
enthusiast.

Later, JFC

Yes - Sneezy is set up to strip out most attachments other than text.
The following file types are not allowed on the list: excel, rtf,
msword, ms-tnef, xlf, pdf, X-Lotus-Encap2, zip, midi, x-midi, gif, jpeg,
bmp, multipart/alternative, multipart/related, html, x-sgml, richtext,
enriched, x-vcard, mpeg, quicktime, x-vrml, octet-stream, and
x-msdownload. All of these have appeared at one time or another on the
Klarinet list or have been judged (by me, in my occasional benign
dictator role) to be either a hazard or inordinate waste of mailing list
bandwidth.

Once in a while someone slips one by (some new type of attachment). It
gets put on the list right away.

I do offer an alternative - if there's a midi or picture you'd like
everyone to see send it to me personally and I'll make it available to
interested parties via a unique mail address on Sneezy.

While we're on the (somewhat off-topic - after all, we _are_ using
computers to communicate, so it's not totally off-topic), there is one
important site I use for security updates:
www.cert.org - the Carnegie-Mellon site (there's a brand new Melissa
Word Macro virus already listed there.) You can get on their mailing
list to be notified of security issues. Highly recommended for anyone
who runs a computer network or has machines directly on the Internet,
but overkill for most people. It's especially useful for Unix boxes on
the Internet.

I also run a virus checker periodically on my home PC and update my
virus list weekly, "just in case".
Cheers,

John F. Clark jclark@-----.edu
College Technology Coordinator
College of Communications and Information Studies
121 Grehan Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0042
PH: (606)257-2810 FAX: (606)323-9879

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