Derek Martin wrote:
>
>As an administrator, I'm inclined to agree. As a USER, if there were a
>program attached to my mail that I wanted to run, if I have to perform
>extra mouse clicks to say Yes, I really do want to run that, I'd be very
>irritated. So I guess I'd have to disagree.
>
>However, I DON'T think these things should automatically kick off... you
>should have to minimally initiate some action to run it. By default, I
>would want my client to come pre-configured to confirm with a nice warning
>in big, bold, annoyingly blinking letters that I might be about to trash
>my system, to get users to think about not running attachments. I'm
>talking screen-sized here people. There should also be some randomly
>generated key sequence, which is explained in the dialog, to get it to go
>away, to force users to actually read the warning, rather than simply
>click on OK.
>
>But ultimately, for people who do know what they're doing, you should be
>able to disable that.
And therein lies the hitch -- how to determine that the user really knows
what they are doing.
Even as a user I can't imagine a case where I'd want to automatically
execute a program attached to an Email.
Jerry
My $.02
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Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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