On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:41:41PM +1300, Dean Pemberton wrote: But it does bring up a good point. Do list managers have a duty of care when it comes to scanning for viruses? In my opinion (hey you did ask!), no. Absolutely Not. No more so that any other delivery medium should be responsible for inspecting the contents of the media... should the postal service be responsible for checking all mail --- even when the mail is open or disclosed such the privacy issues are null? Now, that doesn't mean they can't or shouldn't, but I don't think they should. My mail box is now filling up with messages from people virus scanners who are auto responding to the MFAT mailing list. These scanners are broken. This is no different to other auto-responders which spam list such as mSEXchange/outlook vomit which from time to time plagues this very list. Obviously, the best way to deal with these people (administrators and authors of such software) is extreme violence with a small ball-hammer, a blow-torch and a hand cranked drill; or, to ignore moronic software with which the world now seems to have abundant supply of. Thoughts, Comments, Calls for me to shut the **** up? Dean, shut the *** up. --cw P.S. Email virii are a good thing... think of it as natural selection in the electronic world. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog