On 11-Jan-07, at 9:49 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 11 Jan 2007 at 12:23, shirling & neueweise wrote:
At 10:47 +0100 1/8/07, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
May I politely ask that attachments are not sent to the list? I know
most people have broadband access these days, and your PDF was very
small, but I would really prefer as a general rule not to have
attachments sent to this list at all. Please upload your files to a
website if you want others to see or download it.
even for those with broadband, they are also simply files that
clutter up the dumputer. i usually manage to keep my attachments
folder down to around 400 files, and when attempting to clean it up
every once in awhile i have to look at every single file there to
determine whether it is important to me or not.
I thought Henry had set up the listserv software to strip out
attachments? That would make the point moot (and Mailman can
definitely do it).
As to the comment about the "attachments folder" above, my guess is
you're using Eudora, since that's the only email program I know that
automatically and without your consent or direction decodes all
attachments upon receipt of the email (or maybe when you open it).
This is a phenomenally stupid design decision -- it means that
harmful attachments are there waiting for you to accidentally execute
them. Every other email program I know leaves the attachment alone,
in encoded format until you explicitly ask to open it.
I have seen Eudora users infect themselves with nasties that their AV
programs didn't catch because they were browsing their attachments
folder to see what all that stuff in there was.
In other words, the problem you have is a problem caused by your
choice of email program. You can avoid the problem by using a more
standard email client.
I'm pretty sure Johannes and jef are on Mac, which don't generally
have anti-virus programs, but the problem of accumulating attachments
folders can happen even if you hand-click on each attachment. It's a
question of organisation that we were discussing.
But I agree with the original premise that there shouldn't be
attachments sent to the list, and the list should be configured to
reject them.
Christopher
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