jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) (04/11/89)
Today, Monday 10 Apr 1989, marks the mid-point in the voting for the new newsgroup comp.virus. This is a reminder, and will hopefully clarify a few points. To vote, send mail to me marked either "YES" for creation or "NO" against creation. If you want to check if your vote reached me, wait until the voting has finished, at which time I will post a list of all votes received. The group will be moderated. The moderator will be Ken van Wyk, who is currently the moderator of the virus-l mailing list. Also, Dave Ferbrache will be the European coordinator of the group. This will not be a "private" group. You may subscribe and read it as easily as you do any other group. You can submit material as easily as you can for any other moderated group (e.g. comp.risks, comp.unix, misc.security, etc.). If your site has up-to-date news software, submitting material to moderated groups should appear identical to submitting material to non-moderated groups. This will not be a micro-only group. There currently is a discussion in virus-l of "exec"-type viruses in IBM mainframe computers. This is only an example; other systems are equally welcome. In conjunction with comp.virus, we have been trying to establish a number of anti-viral archive sites. These sites will maintain any combination of archives of the virus-l/comp.virus group, papers dealing with computer security, anti-viral software for specific computers, etc. We currently have sites in the US and Europe. -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu