RE: [chairs] Anti-gen zapping XML attachments!

You’d better switch to coffee – you’ve been in the US long
enough to kick that British habit! ;-)

Peter

 

From: David RR Webber (XML)
[mailto:] 

Sent: Wed, 07 April 2010 10:52

To: Scott McGrath

Cc: 'Mary McRae'; 'Neil Joseph Schelly'; 

Subject: RE: [chairs] Anti-gen zapping XML attachments!

 

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:

 

1.   
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.

2.   
Your attachment *was not rejected* because it was XML,
zipped, or some combination of those attributes.  Those factors are not
considered in filtering.

3.   
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