[NHCOLL-L:1340] Re: Follow Up on NHCOLL Viruses

[Tony Irwin]

Bobby's proposals make good sense. Like many receivers of e-mail these days,
I simply delete all mails with attachments unless I have confirmed with the
sender that they have sent me one. All listserve e-mails with attachments I
delete anyway. If something's too big to paste into an e-mail, put it on a
website or tell everyone that the file's available on request. That way we
can assume any listserve e-mails with attachments are carrying viruses and
delete them before they are spread any further. Knowingly sending an
attachment to a newsgroup these virus-ridden days amounts to lazy,
thoughtless bad manners!
Tony Irwin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberta Faul-Zeitler" <faulzeitler at nscalliance.org>
To: "NHCOLL" <nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 8:34 PM
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:1339] Follow Up on NHCOLL Viruses


>
> 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
>