Re: explanation of the noise (was Re: Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.)
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 04:31, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:10, Carl Fink wrote:
> > How about this list silently discarding (or bouncing) all messages
> > that contain attachments over 2K? (Exception there to cover PGP
> > signatures.)
>
> Because your average /var/log/XFree86.0.log is longer than 2K ;-)
Don't send it as an attachment - inline it. Malware must be sent as an
attachment - information can be put in the body (although someone might
want to send a screen capture or something).
It might be a good idea to refuse large attachments on the list. How
big are digital signatures?
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bwaldow at alum dot mit dot edu
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