I almost never open an attachment, unless it comes from a known and trusted source, and I am expecting an attachment. This is an antivirus measure.
So unfortunately I never get to read the posts certain by certain people, e.g. Sean Quinlan, because for some reason their posts become an attachment. So I would like you to consider blocking email with attachments. At a minimum this would encourage people to send plain old email. However a better approach, if viable, is converting the attachment to plain text and pasting it inline. Ideally this would preserve the fact that it once was an attached file, and it also the file's name. This should work with all non-binary files, I do not think there is any need to post binary files to this list. I do not know enough about the programs that send mail or intermediary programs, or the processing when mail arrives, to understand if this is possible or easy to do. Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steve Tolkin Steve . Tolkin at FMR dot COM 617-563-0516 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V4D Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald J Kimball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 9:55 PM > To: Chris Devers > Cc: Boston Perl Mongers > Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] list viruses > > > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:25:08PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > > Okay, so two viruses have made it to the list today. In > both cases, it > > looks like the mail came from Verizon customers: > > > > Received: from pm.org (pool-141-154-212-242.bos.east.verizon.net > > [141.154.212.242]) > > by mail.pm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i45Joc914994 > > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 5 May 2004 14:50:39 -0500 > > > > Received: from pm.org (pool-141-154-222-33.bos.east.verizon.net > > [141.154.222.33]) > > by mail.pm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i460aa919816 > > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 5 May 2004 19:36:36 -0500 > > > > Boston.pm's mail is served by Mailman, right? Does Mailman > have a way to > > filter [presumably unsubscribed] incoming mail by network? > > These messages were both forged from addresses that are > subscribed to the > mailing list, which is why they made it through. Incoming mail from > non-member addresses is already moderated. > > > > Going to a purely moderated list might be annoying for > whoever has to do > > it [maybe Ronald, maybe someone else]. > > I have already turned on content filtering for the list. > This will remove > unwanted attachments, but still sends the remainder of the message > through. (This is why the second message was missing its > payload.) If > that's not sufficient I can try rejecting all messages that contain > attachments, but that will block some legitimate posts. > > > > Going to the pure Perl Siesta list manager software would be an > > interesting move, but I'm not sure if it's stable enough yet. > > That would be up to the pm.org sysadmins. > > > Ronald > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
