I am in the magazine publishing industry, and some of our advertisers & authors send
us self-extracting compressed files. I hope our host doesn't decide to block .exe
files.
I am not an imail owner, but rather a domain administrator at an imail host. I have
been watching the virus-catching threads with interest. It bothers me that hosts would
block particular files as attachments. This should be on the end user's head, it is
not the host's responsibility or right to block any of my incoming files. I might need
and want them.
One could also argue that they have no right to block spam. After all, how are my
employees going to find out how to visit web sites involving doing strange things with
animals? (In spite of the serious nature of my initial thoughts, I am not without a
sense of humor.)
Charlie Rhodes wrote at 10:04 AM 12/05/2001 -0500:
>Here is a list of attachment types we block. It gives us some false
>positives, but not too many.
>"wsh"
>"vbx"
>"shs"
>"scr"
>"exe"
>"bat"
>"vbs"
>"cab"
>"nws
>"asp"
>"dll"
>"eml"
>"cmd"
>"xml"
>"pif"
>"sys"
>"asd"
>"chm"
>"ocx"
>"vbe"
>"wsf"
>"js"
Michael Welch
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Managing Editor, Home Power magazine
Office Coordinator, Redwood Alliance
(Not HP mag numbers) 707-822-7884 fax: 707-822-3481
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