Re: OT: Virii on vger.kernel.org lists

Justin Guyett
2001-08-01T21:20:55Z

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> > Better than that, simply strip all non-text MIME attachments,
> > or bounce the messages containing them. End of story.

> That has the rather stupid effect of also killing gzip/bzip2ed patches
> that come to the list. Survey says: BZZZZZT!

and the response to that argument was that such patches are just as hard
or harder to turn into readable/usable form when included on the list as
when posted on an ftp/web site, so it's better to spare people's mailboxes
from huge attachments and just provide a url to the patch.

justin