Virus Distribution via this group

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed Dec 10 18:15:57 2003

> The world seems to have become a complex place... I miss the days of
> command-line mail clients, and if you really wanted to send an
> attachment it was a case of encoding it yourself and relying on the
> recipient knowing how to decode it...

You do realise that's exactly what I do here, still. If I want to send
somebody a binary, I normally uuencode it, and pipe the result to
mail(1). MIME enocoding is a lot harder for me, so I try to avoid having
to do it....

And any mail program that attempts to run anything (binary or macro)
automatically is broken. Period. It's as secure as leaving your door keys
in the door with a big sign explaining how to use them!

-tony
Received on Wed Dec 10 2003 - 18:15:57 GMT