Attachments, yes. Executables, no. Executables wrapped in an archive are quite a lot less dangerous than bare ones.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.I personally think that nearly all ISPs, especially those with a large proportion of newbies, should delete directly-executable attachments without question.
This would be a good topic for coverage in the BCP for service providers.
And BCP for MUA authors.
Agree on both counts. -------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: chromi@chromatix.demon.co.uk website: http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/ tagline: The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it. _______________________________________________ Asrg mailing list Asrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg