From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 22:32:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D8A37B51E; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA81234; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:32:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway 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.. Attachments are often useful for distributing files (patches, program logs) with email. They're also not "unsafe" [1] for FreeBSD users to use. I understand that for whatever reason some people can't use FreeBSD to read their email, but this _is_ a FreeBSD list and I don't think we should worry too much about catering to other platforms. Specifically, if you want to scan all of your email attachments then you should use a virus scanner which can do it automatically instead of asking the world to change their ways. Kris [1] There have been various security holes in MUAs involving buggy MIME-parsing code, but these are rare and easily fixed. ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message