Re: Thoise virus infected messages.

From: Vesa-Pekka Palmu (depili@sci.fi)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 08:20:47 CEST


Joshua Hudson <joshudson@hotmail.com> kirjoitti:
> >From: Sebastian Leske <sleske@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de>
> >Hi,
> >
> >About viruses & other big attachments:
> > > Could we do something about them, as I have quite slow
> > > connection to internet and having to download thoise large
> > > messages is frustrating. If there is a way to block the user sending
> > > thoise messages from the list I thing that we should do it.
> >
> >Most list manager software can be configured to reject messages that
> >exceed a certain size, or even all messages with attachments.
> >That would be a solution, if the list manager software of this list
> >supports it.
> >
> Please, permit attachments, although large ones could be trashed.
>
Well I think that you should never attach anything to messages to a list, if you need to send something to all members of the list, upload the file to some of thoise free wespace providers and send the link instead of an attachment, as not everyone in the list ming need that file.

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