On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Debayan Banerjee <[email protected]> wrote:

>  1) Most people dont use email clients like outlook, evolution etc so
> the mails never download on the machines.
>  2) Do all the vulnerabilities also affect Linux systems? I guess most
> of the vulnerabilities in #4 affect Windows machines.
>  3) *Many* other mailing lists do not have this limitation.
>  4) Cant we instead employ some firewall that scrubs MIME/HTML from a
> mail and then forwards it to a list. I know ISI Kolkata does it via
> the Cisco Ironport firewall system. If possible please do this. I say
> lets expose people to vulnerabilities if it means more discussion on
> this list.

Why is improving one's communication skills a lower priority and,
tooling around it a higher one ? Take a real life scenario - if you
had something very important to say, you'd move heaven and earth to
make yourself heard would you not ? Why should it be different when it
comes to a mailing list if your point was so important ?

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