Any attachment can contain malicious code, so just blocking pdf’s won’t solve the problem. Maybe the bulletin board administrators could look into a good virus-scanner to get rid this kind of emails.
However, so far gentle reminders by board members kept this bulletin board remarkably free of spam, politics and insulting language, so currently I do not (yet) see a need for more stringent measures. In fact, the reactions to the fishing emails generated much more email traffic than the emails themselves. My 2 cts, Herman Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jon Agirre Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2016 14:50 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] {meta} posts with pdfs Better. Article requests can always be dealt with off list, unless they're open access, in which case providing a link would be a better option for publishers, authors and uninterested recipients. I think it's a win-win scenario. On 13 December 2016 at 13:35, Paul Emsley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Would this mailing list be better or worse if mails with pdfs were blocked? -- Dr Jon Agirre York Structural Biology Laboratory / Department of Chemistry University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, York, England http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/research/ysbl/people/staff/jagirre/ +44 (0) 1904 32 8270
