Scott,
Will submit the message for analysis.
I can confirm that the ZIP was posted OK - despite the fierce message from Anti-gen indicating otherwise!
I can't cope well with such things before the third cup of tea in the morning!
Thanks, DW
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Subject: RE: [chairs] Anti-gen zapping XML attachments!
From: "Scott McGrath" <>
Date: Wed, April 07, 2010 1:04 pm
To: "'David RR Webber (XML)'" <>,
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Cc: "'Mary McRae'" <>, "'Neil Joseph Schelly'"
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David, all,
In the interest of clarity, allow me to point out a few things in reply:
We have been filtering mail to the lists and all OASIS addresses for years. I don’t think you are suggesting we don’t, given that ~98% of all traffic to our servers is spam.
Your attachment *was not rejected* because it was XML, zipped, or some combination of those attributes. Those factors are not considered in filtering.
If you are interested in learning why your message was filtered (as a false positive or otherwise) and allowing us to tweak the filter, may I suggest you follow the instructions received in your bounce message and submit the original message to for our analysis.
Hope that helps,
Scott…
From: "David RR Webber \(XML\)" <>
Date: April 7, 2010 11:32:13 AM EDT
To:
Subject: [chairs] Anti-gen zapping XML attachments!
Just found out today that OASIS now has an anti-virus filter on its list email - and it zapped my ZIP because it saw XML in there.
Is everyone else thinking this is a very bad idea for a XML standards group?
Thanks, DW
