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Re: [FD] FD should block attachments
From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines () halplant com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:54:54 -0500
Michael,
I think FD should change their policy and block all attachments, except maybe plain text file's.
Since some folks presumably want to be able to send and receive the latest MS innovations and other attachments, why don't you just block whatever you don't want to receive? I certainly do. The increasing trend of solving security problems by throwing out the baby, bathtub and any bathroom fittings which can be torn off is disturbing. It's much the same as the prevalence of the "There should be a law against that!" culture. This is certainly not to say SMTP is a good choice of file transfer protocol, or that it's an efficient use of resources. Perhaps a more friendly solution would be to have a per-user option to have attachments (some or all types) stripped. I'm not sure it this is something Mailman can easily do, but since it already has MIME-specific handling for digest, I can't imagine it being too hard. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines () halplant com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: FD should block attachments Tim (Apr 02)
- Re: FD should block attachments Paul Schmehl (Apr 02)
- Re: FD should block attachments Gregory A. Gilliss (Apr 02)
- Re: FD should block attachments Niek Baakman (Apr 02)
- Re: FD should block attachments Michael Cecil (Apr 02)
- Re: FD should block attachments Paul Schmehl (Apr 02)
- RE: FD should block attachments Poof (Apr 02)
- Re: FD should block attachments Niek Baakman (Apr 03)
- Re: FD should block attachments petard (Apr 02)
- Re: [FD] FD should block attachments Andrew J Caines (Apr 02)
- Re: Re: [FD] FD should block attachments morning_wood (Apr 02)
- Re: Re: [FD] FD should block attachments Luke Norman (Apr 02)
- RE: FD should block attachments Sean Crawford (Apr 03)
- Re: FD should block attachments Michael Gale (Apr 03)
- Re: FD should block attachments Michael Gale (Apr 03)