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List:       inet-access
Subject:    Re: Stupid virus filter
From:       Rich Kulawiec <rsk () magpage ! com>
Date:       2002-08-22 23:45:37
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:40:39PM -0400, The Tibetan Traveller wrote:
> I can top that "stupid filter" story!

Okay, I'll play.

One of the mailing lists I run has a member at Large Government Agency.
Said member from LGA sent an innocuous (plain ASCII text, no MIME) message
to the list -- from the LGA.  The list of course distributed the message
to all its members, not altering it except to add the appropriate RFC 2919
headers and a two-line bit of boilerplate footer.

You guessed it: the mail system at LGA, which allowed the message to go
out, refused to let it back in, claiming that it had a virus.

---Rsk
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