Incoming from David Mandelberg: > s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Moe: > > > >>Martin Schulze wrote: > >> > >>> Part 1 Type: C > >>> Encoding: 8bit > >> > >>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 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. > > 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
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? Okay, slap a lot of autoload crap in your .mailcap and watch your system disappear. You don't _have_ to look at an attachment if you don't trust it. Write the person who you got it from and tell them to post it on a website instead. Then point something sensible like firefox at it. How often have you seen a "freedesktop.org compliant launcher for the program "rm -rf $HOME"" anyway? I never have. 'Sound like a Microsoft Security Update (aka Swen) to me. Okay, it could happen. That's why I take the time to think about what I'm doing. > I agree that not opening any attachments is counter-productive and shows Fear of opening attachments is stupid. It's fear mongering based on experience with Windows applications' ineptitude. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
