Re: [Groff] goodbye to the groff list

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > I am writing to let you know I will be signing off of the groff
> > list later today. The postings I have recieved today are all
> > viruses - no content. This situation has gotten steadily worse
> > over the past couple of weeks until I can no longer tolerate it.
> 
> If you had been receiving viruses broadcast by the groff list server
> then we would all have had them. I do not think I have seen a single
> such mail from [Groff] today (or *any* mail from [Groff] today,
> indeed not since Saturday 17 April!).

It can be easily checked whether a spam mail has been distributed
directly via the groff list: Just look into the mailing list archive
(which I right now can't do since I'm offline).  Unfortunately some
mails are distributed by the mailman program which don't show up in
the archive -- at least it looks like that.  This appears to be a
severe mailman bug, and I really hope that the FFII administrators
find some time to do an update.

> Another possibility (contained within the above) is that a server
> at ffii.org is itself virus-infected ...

I doubt that -- ffii.org is operated as a GNU/Linux box.

> > Since I am interested in groff, I have volunteered to host the
> > list at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where we can
> > implement these rules, but I have not received any response.

This is something which I've apparently missed since I answer *all*
emails which need (or deserve) an answer.  Sorry for that, and thanks
for the offer.

I'm now rather convinced that I will move the list -- since groff is a
GNU project, the natural mail server is mail.gnu.org.  IIRC, the GNU
people will install advanced spam filters in the near future (or they
have already done this); as soon as this happens, the move will be
done.


    Werner