On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:56:48PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 04:15:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... > > > > Earthlink have implemented virus and spam filtering within the past > > month or so, early November, if time serves. > Yea! <snip> > headers. They may have resisted doing anything because of a shortage > of CPU power (yes, I know, viruses consume CPU, bandwidth, disk space > even if ignored...). They also claimed that they weren't getting that > many swens over their subscriber base. This is perhaps true if it was > harvesting off usenet postings. > more viruses, more cpu time, more MONEY. Its always money in the end. <snip> > Did earthlink send a notice of this change, or did they just do it? I > didn't know about it. But then, I usually don't read their > newsletters, where I suppose they might have mentioned it. I used > their webmail interface quite recently, and didn't see anything > suggesting their filtering options had changed. I went to the 'email options' page and turned on the VIRUS options as soon as KMS mentioned it. Ever since my email has included a new header:X-ELNK-AV (0 or 1). Where 1 means virus, and the message is cleaned and edited to display the reason it was edited. -Kev > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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