[sub] [Sussex] re:- Phil Turners last post

[John Crowhurst]

> I agree absolutely that the list should strip them. I'm surprised that
> the list allows attachments at all, TBH. Most lists I'm on have stopped
> accepting them now.

I think mailman should have an option in its config like Listar has,
unmime-quiet, where all attachments are silently stripped of people's
emails.

> In terms of day-to-day use, are you suggesting that ZIPs should be
> blocked by the mail servers? I'm involved in a fair bit of VBA
> development between here and Spain at the moment. I can't email about
> VBA/XLA files for obvious reasons, so at the moment I ZIP them.

Well, there is a procmail rule out there that simply poisons the extension.
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html

The problem isn't that its a zipfile, but more that the zipfile contains a
virus. People who read their email like they must open and run the
executable inside are just stupid and shouldn't really be using a
computer.
How many people would undo their petrol cap and light the fumes if the
petrol pump attendant told them to?

--
John