2 cents I don't think the problem is only eye-dee ten-tee issues. Not being sure of the limit of an attachment, it may be a waste of BW or time for people on slower connections. "I know it's a virus, but I can't resist. - I have to push the button." or "Baitcar" I don't care if the file is PHP or someones signature. No one needs to prove to me that they are who they say they are in a forum. It's not like someone is going to tell me to touch mains and then say it wasn't them. YOU may not get a virus, but what about the person next door riding your wifi, you wife, kid in the other room, room mate, etc. Honestly, doesn't matter to me either way, but I see turning it off simply protects everyone instantly. Leaving it on protects everyone until it doesn't. Isn't including links in a post enough? Or putting the file in the downloads section? Again, not a complaint. I don't care either way. I just don't have an argument FOR attachments. In a message dated 9/9/2010 7:03:39 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
On 9/9/2010 3:20 AM, yendor3 wrote: > The 'abused' aspect is the pivotal one. > Another group I receive from allows attachments. One of the less > computer-literate members sent out bundles of photos. He didn't let Windows > resize them [for the email] because he thought it would also resize his > original files. Some of the members are still on dial-up too. This is the /exact/ reason IMAP4 was built. > I don't really mind attachments from trusted sources. > But, on another group a member's computer became infected and even though he > is 'trusted' as far as his own input is concerned the result is that I still > really don't know. as long as the files being moved around are /non-executable/ you're good. No really. A JPEG isn't going to do you any good if its infected because it WONT OPEN in a reasonable viewer. 'infected text files' is a misnomer. > Even if we all have the 'latest' protections operating they only protect us > from 'old' problems. The latest 'nasty' can still bite; takes time for the > protection software to catch up. See above... > I can't see any need for attachments. > Any given attachment won't be of interest to all the members. > Some members accidently answer a communal post to the community when they > actually meant to take it off-line - the answer could be BIG attachments of > manuals/pics/scans etc going to everyone. ... You can't stop Eye-Dee Ten Tees. > I can't think of any "good arguments as to why we shouldn't have them > anyway..." , BUT I can think of even less arguments as to why we SHOULD have > them. I can think of a few good reasons for keeping them. For example I use PGP to sign my email. As an experiment, I'm going to be using PGP/MIME which attaches the sign hash as 'signature.asc' with the MIMEtype PGP/Signature > There have been moanings about other various functions that seem to be set > default ON, maybe this fits that category. It should be considered default > Off and good reasons advanced for turning On ?? [...] > And, didn't someone in the past complain that attachments didn't/wouldn't > get into the archive and are thus lost? [This might have been during the > previous (last year?) discussions re a new venue for the group.] Unfortunately there's no solution that fits both sides easily, I dont think. Its either on and one side of that argument is happy and has archival on, or the other side is happy and we don't have that archival. FWIW, the Cygwin (a POSIX layer for Windows) allows attachments on its mailing lists. These mailing lists I've /given up on trying to read regularly/ anymore. they get 400+ emails a /day/ on good day, 200+ on a bad one. Without those attachments, we'd have /really/ long emails. ( Late thought: Allow only certain filetypes. ) -- Morgan Gangwere >> Why? > Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. >>> Top-Posting is evil. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
