> As a further request, please do NOT send "winmail.dat" or "signature.asc" > files to lists (most lists don't allow ANY attachments). Not all mail > programs know what to do with them (Eudora for one) and they just clutter > up the attachment directory. Besides, even if my reader knew how to > automatically read attachments, I wouldn't authorize it due to the > virus/worm threats already mentioned (as well as html threats, but that's a > different thread).
I've no idea what winmail.dat is, but signature.asc is there for your protection - it's a pgp signature so you can tell whether the email was modified in flight or sent by somebody other than the person who claimed to send it. In my mailer (Evolution), it appears as an icon that indicates whether the signature matches the email and sender. This is an Internet standard as documented in rfc2015 (you can read it at this URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2015.txt) It surprises me that Eudora can't handle it, since the standard has been around since 1996 or so. Asking that no attachments be sent at all seems like an extreme answer to the virus problem. Sort of an "OK - we give up" solution: nobody wins. It certainly won't help solve all virus problems (many viruses propagate by other means such as Windows/Linux/whatever vulnerabilities) and definitely won't solve the problem of people getting viruses from other mailing lists or personal emails. These sources can have just as much an impact on a mailing list or personal email account as mail-based viruses. Regards, Robert. -- Robert Walsh Amalgamated Durables, Inc. - "We don't make the things you buy." Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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