sec: unclassified - a list user is doing something...

[Ellis, Peter R.]

Hi.

I am generally a lurker on this list, that I read as a digest.

Something interesting has been happening recently. The most recent
occurrence was in the last day. This is NOT a witch-hunt, just an
investigation into a curiousity in someone's list posts.

Someone on this list is posting in a manner that causes "bells and whistles"
to go off with some email sweeper programs in use around the place, it
seems.

> An e-mail addressed to you has been blocked due to an inability to virus
scan the contents.
> This may be attributed to encryption and/or password protection on one or
all of the attachments.
> Encrypted and password protected documents are blocked in accordance with
guidelines.

The message was... [snip...] linux digest, Vol 1 #852 - 12 msgs
i.e. The problem was somewhere in the 12 messages previous to the one given
below.

Please suggest a way of finding out what the problem is.
e.g. Where can I go through the full logs of this list, please?

Thanks,
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-request at lists.samba.org
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Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2002 23:26
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Subject: linux digest, Vol 1 #853 - 13 msgs

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:20:14 +1000
From: Drake Diedrich <dld at coyote.com.au>
To: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Telstra ADSL