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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:24:23 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Minnesota Slinky <mnslinky@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCO going after BSD???
Message-ID:  <20031120072423.GA80697@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <000c01c3af1e$b42e9fe0$6801a8c0@Nomad>
References:  <20031120013831.GT98272@klapaucius.zer0.org> <000c01c3af1e$b42e9fe0$6801a8c0@Nomad>

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:28:04PM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote:

> I talked to a couple of people who do beta testing for Microsoft and
> they said the issue came up a few years ago.  According to them (one
> being my father), it has to do with security and virus protection.
> Again, this is second-hand, so take it for what it's worth...

There's no possible sense in which this can be true.  Plain text
attachments do not create a security or virus risk.

Kris

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