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

Alan Cox
2001-08-02T00:26:56Z

> 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!
>
> Don't use attachments on l-k. If patch is small - include it in the body.
> If it isn't - post URL.

Nice theory but netscape, mozilla, and most versions of pine tend to make
a mess of patch files sent plain