Hi Brent --

At 07:12 6/11/99 -0700, you wrote:
>With this latest virus running around, I found myself wondering:

You need an excuse?  I talk to the trees, that's why they put me away....

>Since I subscribe in "Digest" mode,

Now *that* strikes me as the hard way.  Lots easier to take 'em as they
come and just filter them into a Van-list folder. :)

>  my List mailings come in the form of a
>string of e-mail attachments.  Since I open the individual e-mails in order
>to read them, I'm wondering if Gerry can somehow inadvertently transmit
>these e-mail viruses this way...

You have to actually execute the zippedfiles.exe attachment, the name will
be on the cover.  I've never seen Gerry's digest mode, so I don't know
exactly what the msgs look like, but a .exe file should certainly be
distinguishable from the others.

david

David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net