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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Thomas Eibner <th...@stderr.net> on 2002/02/03 00:36:50 UTC

Re: email attachments; was modperl growth

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 10:21:32AM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote:
> Folks, please don't send attachments, esp. with no explanation, it looks
> just like these deliberate virus attacks to me and I refuse to open any
> attachments unless I am personally familiar with the sender and know they
> know what they're doing. If it's plain text please embed it in the email,
> else provide a URL where one can download the attachment from.
> Yeah, I know, use Linux, don't use Outlook Express, .txt attachments are
> unlikely to contain virus, use antvirus software etc.... been there, done
> that, I'm sticking to my story.

Outlook Express has no clue on what to do with PGP signed messages? Which
is what it was. 

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