[PLUG] On the topic of spam & MS-virii

[Paul Johnson]

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On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:01:13PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   There was a pertinent, and interesting, thread on this topic earlier this
> week on the mailhelp list. Chuck Mead proposed rejecting all
> Microsoft-executable attachments. If folks need to distribute legitimate
> binaries, he proposed, rename the extension to someling like .dat or .zip
> and let the recipient know in the body of the message.

This only starts a race condition: If this gets widely adopted, then
all that will happen is the viruses change filenames.  Whee!

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