What if you don't have a public web or ftp site?
What about archived messages? A lot of attachments are source code for
things that you don't need at the moment, but will sometime later. Will
posters need to keep their attachments and ftp/web sites available forever?
-----Original Message-----
From: Hines, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:32 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: A great Shockwave flash movie
I'm in favor of banning attachments. We went though this on the JSP_INTEREST
list. We started getting viruses, etc so attachments were banned and nobody
misses them. Files can be hyperlinked from the messages to web sites, ftp
sites, etc and downloaded that way. I would think that the attachments are
pretty annoying to people that don't have broadband anyway, especially when
some people insist on sending large files!
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:47 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: A great Shockwave flash movie
> From: Colin Wilson-Salt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> There's probably no reason for a list like this this to allow
> attachments. I personally don't care about viruses (and I
> won't, until
> someone writes an emailable virus that attacks Solaris machines), but
> can we consider having the list dissallow attachments? After
> all, we all
> work on the internet, we can find other ways to get files to
> each other.
I would find it disappointing if the list were to indiscriminately reject
all attachments. Many messages have sample code attached to them, and I find
that these are among the most valuable contributions to the list.
My employer's mail server, through which I receive the struts list, removes
all attachments with the .exe extension, and prevented this particular virus
from being transported. This could be done with a few other extensions as
well, such as .vbs; and others have suggested, a virus scanner could be run
over all attachments before mail is forwarded to the list.
At any rate, there are a number of solutions that stop short of banning
attachments altogether.
Best,
Geoff
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