On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:19:20AM +0200, A. Schirmacher wrote:
| II think any email containing an executable is spam.

It's certainly junk, unless you asked for it (in which case a smart
sender will (g)zip it first).

| Windows executables can have extensions other than
| *.exe, for example *.bat, *.scr, and whatnot.

Lots more possibilities.

| Those executables are very dangerous because the reader might not
| recognize them as an executable.

<anti-flame>
They're dangerous because they require a dangerous system to operate
as they were intended, and often either or both of them are intended
to behave badly ;-).
</anti-flame>
 
| Can someone post a rule for such emails? 

ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/system_filter.exim

It's a system filter for exim.  Use it to trash the stuff separate
from SA, or pull the PCREs from it and embed them in your local copy
of SA.

-D

-- 

He who belongs to God hears what God says.  The reason you do not hear
is that you do not belong to God.
        John 8:47
 
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