[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 .

-- 
Craig Ringer
GPG Key Fingerprint: AF1C ABFE 7E64 E9C8 FC27  C16E D3CE CDC0 0E93 380D
	-- if it ain't broke, add features 'till it is. (or:)
	while (! broken) { features ++ ; broken = isBroken(features) }




More information about the plug mailing list