[plug] Virus attachment avoidance protocol (VAAP)
Craig Ringer
craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Mon Aug 19 15:28:39 WST 2002
> The issue remains; the only two mailing lists from which I appear to
> have received viral messages, are the only two mailing lists that have
> distributed attachments with posted messages, and almost all, if not
> all, of the other lists, strictly reject any attachments, purely as a
> protection against transmission of malicious code.
Personally, I'm all for attachment stripping - _if_ it can be done using
something like procmail that can selectively strip attachments. I'd
prefer, personally, not to strip S/MIME and PGP attachments but anything
else can go >/dev/null .
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Craig Ringer
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