On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:14:29PM -0800, Moe wrote:
After all these months/years of warnings to NEVER open email
attachments, why are you sendinf attachments instead of in-line?
Martin Schulze wrote:
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What mail client are you using,
Adam Lydick wrote:
Fantastic idea! (as others have said) Have you filed a bug against
nautilus (and other shells) to this effect? You might also file one at
the various upstream bug tracking systems as well.
I'm glad you like it (I do too), but it wasn't my idea. Search the ubuntu-devel
list
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 04:45, David Mandelberg wrote:
Attached.
Save to your GNOME/KDE desktop (like many newbies do) and double click the
new icon. .desktop files (currently) don't need the x bit set to work, so
no chmod'ing is necessary.
Hmm, attached a screenshot how every MUA
Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The problem here is the nitwit factor.
Yes, well, a bunch of us have been keeping an eye on Linux MUAs and
default mailcap behaviour for 10+ years, to make sure zeal for
simplicity doesn't lead coders or distro assemblers to do something
dumb. Thus my
s. keeling wrote:
No, I assume people have half a brain in their heads, look at the
attachment type, maybe save it to a file and inspect it, then maybe
look at it or delete it. Too much work?
Whether it's too much work or not, most non-geeks I know don't bother.
Okay, slap a lot of autoload
* s. keeling:
People who don't use stupid Windows email clients have no trouble with
attachments at all. Attachments are a very useful tool; for instance,
for code listings, they arrive unmangled by line wrap.
Get a better email client, running on a better OS.
You mean the OS whose users
Incoming from Florian Weimer:
* s. keeling:
People who don't use stupid Windows email clients have no trouble with
attachments at all. Attachments are a very useful tool; for instance,
for code listings, they arrive unmangled by line wrap.
Get a better email client, running on a
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:52:17AM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote:
I'm just suggesting that it should be harder for them to shoot
themselves in the foot i.e. by making .desktop's have the x bit before
they can be launched.
I strongly agree. No, I STRONGLY agree!
If they are to be marked
Martin Schulze wrote:
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This is what F-Secure gave me. Martin do you send viruses? ;)
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After all these months/years of warnings to NEVER open email
attachments, why are you sending attachments instead of in-line?
People who don't use stupid Windows email clients have no trouble
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Moe:
Martin Schulze wrote:
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After all these months/years of warnings to NEVER open email
attachments, why are you sending attachments instead of in-line?
People who don't use stupid Windows email clients
Quoting David Mandelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Do you mean to say that opening message.txt\t\t\t.desktop which
happens to be a freedesktop.org compliant launcher for the program rm
-rf $HOME is safe because it's designed for people running one of the
F/OSS products GNOME or KDE on a F/OSS OS?
Can you please OT: this
Regards
Denis O'Toole
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Quoting David Mandelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Do you mean to say that opening message.txt\t\t\t.desktop which
happens to be a freedesktop.org compliant launcher for the program rm
-rf $HOME is safe because it's designed for people running one of the
F/OSS products GNOME or KDE
Incoming from David Mandelberg:
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Moe:
Martin Schulze wrote:
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After all these months/years of warnings to NEVER open email
attachments, why are you sending attachments instead of in-line?
People
Quoting David Mandelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Attached.
Save to your GNOME/KDE desktop (like many newbies do) and double click
the new icon. .desktop files (currently) don't need the x bit set to
work, so no chmod'ing is necessary.
I'm sorry, but the question was:
Please advise this
Incoming from Rick Moen:
Quoting David Mandelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Do you mean to say that opening message.txt\t\t\t.desktop which
happens to be a freedesktop.org compliant launcher for the program rm
-rf $HOME is safe because it's designed for people running one of the
F/OSS
Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Well, even mutt will, if you turn on autoload crap in .muttrc and load
up your .mailcap with stupid helper apps.
Out of the box, no, mutt doesn't do that.
Ja. We might call the .mailcap scenario the aim-gun-at-my-foot-please
mutt extension. Maybe
Incoming from Denis O'Toole:
Can you please OT: this
Hint: the d key will probably do this for you. Please stop
interfering with discussions of insecure applications on
debian-security. TVM. :-)
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, David Mandelberg wrote:
Save to your GNOME/KDE desktop (like many newbies do) and double click the
new
icon. .desktop files (currently) don't need the x bit set to work, so no
chmod'ing is necessary.
that'd be dumb of the user
This one is pretty harmless (it just
Incoming from Rick Moen:
Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Well, even mutt will, if you turn on autoload crap in .muttrc and load
up your .mailcap with stupid helper apps.
Out of the box, no, mutt doesn't do that.
Ja. We might call the .mailcap scenario the
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