In general, if it's unmoderated, it has no single point of control. I suppose it would seem to be a "value-added" service from the List-server to check for viruses, but then you'd end up with jerks complaining that "my email didn't get through this unmoderated list, JUST BECAUSE it had a virus".
It's also a bit trickier when the person keeping an eye on an unmorderated list, happens to not work for the organisation providing the list-server (eg. this one). I wouldn't like to go to UOW and make them pay for a virus scanner for this free service they offer us.
Moderated is a different story, someone's taking responsibility for appropriate content, and viruses would generally be unappropriate for most topics.
Arron
Thats a good call Arron. I guess I would have also expected a list of this content to be moderated. In lieu of a digital signature, this is the only way to be able to trust the content (and even then....) Might be something for MFAT to think about. Oh and thanks to all those people who emailed me privatly telling me to 'shut the **** up' =) Did you really think it would be that easy though? Question answered - thread finished - have a great day Dean On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:21:29PM +1300, Arron Scott wrote: - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog