Today, "Aley Keprt" did write about "Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around": > What would you do if you would find a suspicious bottle and there is > hand-written "dear Johnna, drink this liquid, it's great."? > You would drink it at once??? I bet you don't.
Keeping with cars. If you drove into a petrol station, and the pump said "unleaded petrol" that is exactly what you'd expect it to be, you wouldn't expect it to be diesel, or liquid gas (what a daft name that is!). So why shouldn't people expect that if the email they have has an attachment called 'readme.txt' then that attachment is infact a text file which will do no harm when they read it. Personally I'm over paranoid, I could happy argue all day about reading mail with a mail reader and not a HTML/javascript/vbscript interpreter, about the pros and cons of using filenames to determine file types, and far more. At the end of the day people have a right to expect their software not to do anything malicious without their consent. (Unfortunately at the end of the day, far to many people are fussed about style over content.... oh well) Tim
