list filtering [was: Stripsearch ...]

[Ben Finney]

On 22-Jun-2005, David Relson wrote:
> Chris Fortune wrote:
> > bogofilter mailing list seems to have removed it?  The href's were
> > in this format http://paypal.com/?s8s980s8 , and the query strings
> > were all different.  Only the last one was marked as SCAM-ADDRESS.
> 
> Right you are Chris.  The bogofilter list is configured to only
> allow attachments of certain types, e.g. text/plain, files with .gz,
> .bz2, .txt extensions, etc.

Thank you! Please retain this feature.

> This was done to prevent the transmission of virii using spoofed
> addresses.

Niggle: "virii" is not the plural of "virus".

    <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus>
    <URL:http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html>
    <URL:http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/v/virus.html>

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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