Richard M. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... sending out executables as attached files ... is unacceptable. ... > ... to send around executables, please ZIP them up first.
and Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded: > Hint for the new generation of virusmakers: Zip thou virii ;) Advice too late: gibe.b lentin mimail sobig.e seem to have done just that... Sending executables, or executables within ZIP archives (or any ZIP archives? or any archives?) is unacceptable. As stated in another thread, SMTP was meant for short, human-readable plain-text messages; anything else is a perversion. Cheers, Paul Szabo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
