Re: OT Mail attachments

[Eric Morrison]

Here, here.

And what, exactly, do we elect our politicians for?

... e

On Mar 5, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

On Mar 5, 2004, at 9:15 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:

On 05/03/04 11:02, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
[snip!]
FWIW, we're simply automatically blocking any attachment that ends in
.exe, .scr, .bat, .pif, and since last week, all .zip files as well.
That really pisses me off! All the others were not useful, but .zip
files are used legitimately; having to block them is causing a hassle
(though it's getting Stuffit installed on more systems, since we're 
not
having to block .sit or .tgz files...yet...)
[snip!]

Zip archives? At some point, I'm afraid that no system on the 
internet will
accept any attachment...
Yeah, the latest round of 'bagle' viruses are propagating as zip files.

We're hurtling towards that 'no attachment'  point at a pretty fair 
clip.  :-(

Between spam and viruses, we're going to lose e-mail as a viable form 
of communication, probably sooner than later.

This is something that was a revolution in personal communication (IM 
and phones require that people be there at the same time. E-mail is 
asynchronous, yet nearly as instantaneous as a phone call, and 
personally, since I'm hard of hearing, it's a godsend for coherent 
communication), and greedheads and sociopaths are taking it away from 
us.

I have a deep, visceral desire to stick some of these people up on 
pikes, they bring out my inner 
Vlad...<http://members.aol.com/atamas/impaler.jpg>

--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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