[NHCOLL-L:1339] Follow Up on NHCOLL Viruses

[Roberta Faul-Zeitler]

Nov. 27, 2001

Dear Colleagues:

All of us appreciate the opportunity to share questions and resources
through NHCOLL. I enjoy being a subscriber, but am deeply concerned about
the number of viruses that have cropped up over the last year or so, both
through NHCOLL and other email transmissions.

The Natural Science Collections Alliance is cosponsor of NHCOLL with SPNHC.
Our good friend Tim White does a great job managing NHCOLL for the benefit
of all of us.

At this time, I'd like to propose that the NHCOLL participants agree upon
several simple protocols to reduce this problem:

-- No more attachments to email sent through NHCOLL (none, zero, zip). Put
everything in the body of your email.

-- Please try to scan your own email (and attachments) on a regular basis,
and don't forward things onto NHCOLL that have been forwarded to you until
you have scanned them for viruses.

NSC has had several bad virus scares, and in one case, we had to reconstruct
a portion of our shared drive resulting from a virus that came to us from
Canada (through email).

Please let SPNHC and NSC Alliance know what you'd recommend to keep NHCOLL
the good source of news and information that people are eager to share...
and your thoughts on how to keep our listserv squeaky clean.

Thanks ! Bobbie



Roberta Faul-Zeitler
Executive Director
Natural Science Collections Alliance
1725 K Street NW, Suite 601
Washington DC 20006
Tel. (202) 835-9050
FAX (202) 835-7334
Email: faulzeitler at nscalliance.org
Formerly the Association of Systematics Collections