From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > > Chris Devers wrote: > >> Don't send attachments? > >> > >> There's no telling what an attachment contains these days; > > > > A simple check of the message source is sufficient to preclude virus > > etc. > > But why should people have to do that? A simple check of the source > in, say, Outlook might be enough to fire off a worm these days -- why > make people risk it when inline plain text isn't a question at all?
Previewing the message could fire of a worm in Outlook, whether there is an attachment or not is irrelevant. - Don't use Outlook - Install an antivirus > Just say no to mailing list attachments -- if you have a document > longer than can reasonably fit into an email, put it on the web & post > a URL. Not everyone has his own pages to put that to and registering on a free web hosting just to be able to ask for help on a script looks a bit too much to me. Besides ... how do you know the URL doesn't point to a malevolent page that'll abuse a hole in the browser and install a worm or something? Anyway if the code is too long to fit in the body of the email it's too long for people to read. We are all busy people here and if someone posts a ten pages long script few people will care to read it. Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
