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.
Attachments, yes. Executables, no. Executables wrapped in an archive
are quite a lot less dangerous than bare ones.
This would be a good topic for coverage in the BCP for service
providers.
And BCP for MUA authors.
Agree on both counts.
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from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
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