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.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad(_dot_)knowles(_at_)skynet(_dot_)be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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