On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:03:10 -0500 (EST), "Mark H. Wood"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, why are attachments allowed on the list in the
>> first place? Is there any legitimate reason for it?
>
>Well, why not? Is there any legitimate reason *not* to?
Well, there exist common mail clients with buggy scriptable interfaces
that allow malicious programs to send other malicious programs to
everyone in the address book and/or everyone the user emails. That seems
like a pretty legitimate reason not to allow attachments on a list.
The submission of patches is a good point, but to date I have not seen a
single patch submitted on the list as an attachment -- and I've been
here several months. It seems to me that any patch large enough to need
an attachment would be more properly placed on an FTP site somewhere,
anyway.
Just a thought. I'm not really bothered by any of the message-bouncing
and virus-detection spam, myself, and tend to think it's funny instead
of getting mad over it.
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