At 2:06 AM +0100 2003/09/15, Jonathan Morton wrote:
I personally think that nearly all ISPs, especially those with a
large proportion of newbies, should delete directly-executable
attachments without question.
There, I must disagree very strongly. Plenty of people in this
world have reason to be mailing attachments around, although I'm opposed
to their using e-mail as a replacement for proper file-transfer
technologies for large attachments.
Yes, I agree that there should be some default controls to make this
sort of stuff less dangerous, but I am most certainly not convinced that
they should be deleting directly executable attachments unless expressly
asked to do so.
This would be a good topic for coverage in the BCP for service
providers.