Just out of curiosity...what is your stance on L O N G sig files...and also the PGP encrypting (and subsequent display of the PGP coding) of list posts? Are they really needed? my .02 worth Jaguar Denis Havlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, folks > > I would appreciate it if all the postings on our mailing lists would be > plain old ASCII. I can see absolutely no need for html/word/attachements, > and in particular no need for any executeable files in our mailing lists. > I could enforce this, but I am not particularily keen on enforcing > anything, and I hope this e-mail might help a bit. > > As you can see below that I am not really concerned about this stupid > pretty park virus (I MEAN WAS ANYONE STUPID ENOUGH TO RUN THIS PROGRAM?), > but mailing list is suposed to be there for you to exchange infos and have > a nice conversation. Speciall formating, attachements etc. just make the > volume of the traffic bigger, withouth adding any new informations. > > Signal/noise ratio on mailing lists is always rather low, do not make it > even worse. > > By the way, those of you who post in html, with attachements or anything > else except plain old ASCII should be surprised if they ever see an reply > from me or any other Mandrake employee. Except maybe Gael. > > Yours > Denis Havlik > > ============================================================================ > ... > :~> Attached to one of his postings was something called "pretty park.exe" > :~>I did *not* open the attachment! > > Yes, I have seen it. Is this a big deal? I mean, it was rather obvious (at > least to me) that this is a virus, so WTH? It is not as if it would have > been hidden or anything. > > I COULD check all incomming mail for virii (AWFULLY SLOW!!!!), or forbid > attachements, but it does not seam to make much sense at the moment. > If I get pissed off someday, I will forbid attachements on the list. > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Mag^H^H^HDr. Denis Havlik <http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik> > Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Austria (@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 > -------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------- ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
