Its invaluable to be able to get access to some of these binaries, for development of IDS sigs and so forth, to give just one example.
I would hate to see a blanket ban, however if it were possible to have attachments stored on a website and the email attachment replaced with a link to the binary on the website, that would be a good happy middle way I reckon. > -----Original Message----- [snip] > > There are a *few* cases where binary attachments are appropriate. > > > > How about attachments invoke automatic moderation (i.e. > any messages > > with attachment get shunted to the moderator for approval). > > > > This sounds like a decent workgap, if the moderators are > going to wish to > invest the added resources. Of course, it might be expanded > if they are > willing to provide more resources <list members us all, being gluttons > here for 'services'>, and rather then decide to approve > binaries, to post > it to a website themselves, thus not *offending* anyone silly > enough to > execute them, and allowing readers to decide if grabbing it > is of merit to > them. This does make an argument about enabling idiots to do > more stupid > things, but, then again, they are most likely already > available to these > folks already... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
