The MPLS WG Archive

["Andrew G. Malis" <andy.malis@tellabs.com>]

George and Loa,

You may have noticed that the mpls list is undergoing a virus-based email 
attack, using forged from: addresses (see 
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MYDOOM.A 
for details on this particular virus), and using attachments in an attempt 
to spread itself.  This is by far the worse list I'm on for failing to 
filter out the virus-generated email.  I note that you have both been 
victims of this virus in terms of having your email addresses forged, as 
have I, Alex, and many others.  I would like to ask you to consider some 
remedies:

- Move the email list from uu.net to ietf.org.  The other IETF lists that 
I'm on don't have this problem, and they also seem to have pretty good spam 
filtering.  This is probably the easiest fix to the problem.

- If you would rather keep the list at uu.net, ask the admins there to 
filter out any messages with attachments (there's no reason to send 
attachments to an IETF WG email list), and also to bounce incoming messages 
from senders not on the list (I've noticed that many of the forged from: 
addresses are from obsolete addresses).

Thanks!  This has really gone past the level of just being an annoyance.

Cheers,
Andy