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 -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Dean Pemberton Sent: Monday, 12 November 2001 1:42 PM To: NZNog Subject: MFAT mails out virus Hi all. The Subject is kinda true. I'm on the MFAT mailing list which tells me which countries hate Kiwis at any point in time. And this morning it mailed out a strange message which had a subject of "The Auster story goes back into the 1930s." And came from an xtra email address. I just wrote it off as spam. It turns out though that the email contained a virus. Now it's not MFAT's fault (although I don't know what the list was doing unmoderated. I might look at sending out an Advisory for Kiwi's living in Sydney =) (THIS IS A JOKE!) But it does bring up a good point. Do list managers have a duty of care when it comes to scanning for viruses? My mail box is now filling up with messages from people virus scanners who are auto responding to the MFAT mailing list. Thoughts, Comments, Calls for me to shut the **** up? Dean - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog