The MPLS WG Archive

[Eric Gray <egray@westridgenetworks.com>]

George/Loa,

	I agree with Andy. The only mailing list that comes close -
interestingly enough - is IPSec.  I strongly suspect that many MPLS 
list members have not spoken up on this score simply because nobody 
else has until now.  I have been mostly surprised at the unusual 
(and possibly unhealthy) restraint shown in that respect.

--
Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mpls@UU.NET [mailto:owner-mpls@UU.NET] On Behalf Of Andrew
G. Malis
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:29 AM
> To: George Swallow; Loa Andersson
> Cc: MPLS wg
> Subject: Administrivia: virus-based email attack on the mpls list
> 
> 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_MYD
OOM.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