> Those sound like perfectly legitimate emails so working to classify them
> as decent emails would be our goal. Was there anything malicious snuck in
> there?
>
No, they were all just very basic PDF documents, mostly from gmail
accounts, but also from another dozen or different providers. Some
On 6/27/22 2:50 PM, Alex wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
I'm looking for input from people on how they handle attachments, and
people using email as a file transfer service.
My opinion is that you shouldn't rely on using email as a file transfer
service until /after/ you've tested that it works.
One of
Those sound like perfectly legitimate emails so working to classify them as
decent emails would be our goal. Was there anything malicious snuck in
there?
We are using extract text and have been making improvements to it. False
positives especially with the beneficiary and financial rules is
Hi,
I'm looking for input from people on how they handle attachments, and
people using email as a file transfer service. One of our users must have
posted to a job site recently, soliciting resumes from people
internationally. This resulted in 100+ emails from random people who had
never emailed
OpenMacNews a écrit :
sending attachments to lists wins nothing that can't be readily replaced
with post-sites, costs bandwidth/cpu @ the server, runs counter to
'typical' list rules/netiquette around the web.
there is one thing that attachments win: self contained archives. It may
be
OpenMacNews wrote:
i hear your point(s). AND i'm well aware of how many attachments are
sent to this list ... don't need to search the archives.
hence my point/question.
a potentially-executable attachment ESPECIALLY from a spam/virus-centric
list is not something i'm terribly thrilled
Of course under Windows a .pl may well be linked to perl and therefore
be executable without having to do a chmod (which of course Windows
doesn't understand). However, in general I have no problem with either
in-lining or attaching script code.
Executables, on the other hand are a different
Barton L. Phillips a écrit :
Of course under Windows a .pl may well be linked to perl and therefore
be executable without having to do a chmod (which of course Windows
doesn't understand). However, in general I have no problem with either
in-lining or attaching script code.
I don't see much
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:14:05PM -0800, OpenMacNews wrote:
question: what's this list's policy for sending attachments to the list ?
i'm noticing, e.g., *.pl scripts as attachments ... rather than links to
posts at code-paste sites.
I don't think we have a policy about it specifically.
hi theo,
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:14:05PM -0800, OpenMacNews wrote:
question: what's this list's policy for sending attachments to the list ?
i'm noticing, e.g., *.pl scripts as attachments ... rather than links to
posts at code-paste sites.
I don't think we have a policy about it
OpenMacNews wrote:
hi theo,
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:14:05PM -0800, OpenMacNews wrote:
question: what's this list's policy for sending attachments to the list ?
i'm noticing, e.g., *.pl scripts as attachments ... rather than links to
posts at code-paste sites.
I don't
Matt Kettler wrote:
OpenMacNews wrote:
hi theo,
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:14:05PM -0800, OpenMacNews wrote:
question: what's this list's policy for sending attachments to the list ?
i'm noticing, e.g., *.pl scripts as attachments ... rather than links to
posts at code-paste
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:14:05PM -0800, OpenMacNews wrote:
i'm noticing, e.g., *.pl scripts as attachments ... rather than links to
posts at code-paste sites.
I don't think we have a policy about it specifically. Generally speaking
though,
OpenMacNews a écrit :
Matt Kettler wrote:
OpenMacNews wrote:
hi theo,
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:14:05PM -0800, OpenMacNews wrote:
question: what's this list's policy for sending attachments to the list ?
i'm noticing, e.g., *.pl scripts as attachments ... rather than links to
bounce? aheh? bounce to whom? if you bounce to the list, you'll be
unsubscribed. if you bounce to the original sender, you'll get block
listed, may be even bombed, hated, and your photos will be sent to fox
news :).
i said discard/bounce ...
i bounce to people i consider friendly, to let
hi all,
question: what's this list's policy for sending attachments to the list ?
i'm noticing, e.g., *.pl scripts as attachments ... rather than links to
posts at code-paste sites.
iiuc, in general attachments are 'bad form', but given that the list-mgr
is NOT apparently blocking them , it
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