From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 21:52:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F24B37B7AA for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA22758; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 00:52:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 00:52:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Southwell Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Attachments request In-Reply-To: <002601bf9dbe$6573d3e0$45e346c6@demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Southwell wrote: >GlacierI wonder whether those who post to this list would consider to post without using attachments. It is a hassle to have to put stuff through a virus checker when reading a mail list - so unless there are very good reasons for not doing so I delete such mail list posting rather than read them. I would recomend that everyone thinks very carefully before opening attachments on mail lists - even one such as this - it is easy for people to masquerade as others.. > >My experience comes from having lost a lot of data due to a virus introduced from an attachment to list mail. >David This from a guy who's original message used the "Windows-1252" character set, contained HTML tags, and still had the JPEG attached to it. Please, clean up your list mail as well. Brandon D. Valentine -- "...and as for hackers, we note that all of those known to The Register are so strapped financially that seizing their property would be tantamount to squeezing blood from a stone." -- The Register, 02/17/2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message