James Sinnamon wrote: > >Sorry to ask such a basic question, but ... > >If e-mail is restricted to text only, we can be 100% >(99.99999999998% ?) confident that a user will >never be infected with a virus? >
Assuming you mean plain text (ie text/plain and NOT text/html), you are still at risk of delivering e-mail containing uuencoded malware (worms, trojans, and virus infected programs). The risk is not large, because most worms send themselves as MIME attachments, not uuencoded, but a uuencoded file is (or can be) part of a text/plain message and is still recognized and decoded as an attachment by some MUAs. Under the theory that false security is worse than no security, I would say you can't be confident at all. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
