[PLUG] MTA Rejecting .pdf Attachments

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Carla Schroder wrote:

> Windoze is too brain-dead to determine the file type by itself, so it
> relies on extensions. So you'll see weird filenames like foo.jpg.exe. And
> yes, a lot of common file types have been compromised in ways that don't
> require weirdo filenames. Windows happily runs any stray executable,
> whether or not you want it too. Microsoft's feeble efforts to lock it down
> have succeeded in making it even more mysterious to users and admins, but
> hasn't done a thing to slow down its affinity for all the wrong things.
> It's a form of perversity that has almost reached the level of art.

   Thanks for the insight, Carla.

Rich

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