[cod] Attaching EXEs to listmail...

[Kevin]

Isn't it possible for you to block the sending of emails with 
attatchment instead?
Seems a lot better solution to me.

Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

>
> Someone sent a copy of Putty (the Windows ssh client) to the COD 
> mailing list as an attachment. Please do not do this!
>
> 1) Sending an .EXE almost always means virus-compromised system, so 
> many mail servers will just block them, period.
> 2) There're hundreds of people on this list. Most are Linux admins, 
> and either already have, or don't want, a Windows version of SSH.
> 3) There're hundreds of people on this list. I pay for the bandwidth 
> to send each of them an unsolicited copy of Putty.exe.
>
> Ideally if you need to send these sort of things to everyone, you put 
> them on a webserver, and send the URL to the list. If you need to send 
> it to one person, then email still isn't the best option in many 
> cases, but please, send it to just that one person.
>
> Thanks,
> --ryan.
>