-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
At 01:04 PM 8/31/2003, Robert Walsh wrote: I've no idea what winmail.dat is,
It's the Microsoft version of a SIG, only it's a binary attachment.
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.
I use PGP, but it signs IN the message (I'll sign this message to illustrate).
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.
Not really extreme, there is rarely a time (I can't think of any) that an attachment should be sent to everybody on a list. I don't know how many people are here, but I'm on other lists with 1000 or more people. If you have a file to share, you put it someplace and give a URL (as in, the Rocket Ranch article is here: http://interstellar.com/photos/Rocket_Ranch_Article.pdf ). For anyone without their own server, many places offer free space if you allow their advertisements on your web page. Of course, if all you're doing is storing files there, nobody will ever see the advertisements.
Anyway, what is allowed is up to the particular list, I was voicing an opinion. Lists that I manage do not allow attachments (never have, going back many years) and I recommend plain text messages so everyone can read them.
- ---------- Jerry Durand Durand Interstellar, Inc. 219 Oak Wood Way Los Gatos, California 95032-2523 USA tel: +1 408 356-3886 fax: +1 408 356-4659 web: www.interstellar.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1-nr1 (Windows 2000)
iD8DBQE/Ulkzg/IhEgTOK1QRAucGAJ9Je1ImPpyyjjpccpFJn2B0MqRvcQCg7gvE 2QIEd2TqIfKLLMMPCP+ZXwU= =y/le -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
_______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
