[Mimedefang] Re: Unsafe file types

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 08:23, WBrown at e1b.org wrote:

> Again, that is wishful thinking.  You can scream from the rooftops not to 
> open a message with a certain subject (I love you) with threats of 
> termination and some moron will still open it.  Even if you use MD to move 
> the file to a web server and zip it, some clown will just *HAVE* to look 
> at the file and do whatever it takes.
> 

I don't think a person using a program in a normal and expected
way should be considered a moron, and you should expect to be
able to open your email.  The moron is the programmer that
first decided that 'open' should mean the same thing as
'execute'.  Or perhaps it is the people who pay for programs
like that who are the morons.

> Some people just should not have computers.  Dedicated appliances like 
> Mail Station or WebTV are about all they can handle.

Nobody should have a computer that hides the difference between
opening a file, processing it as data and executing it's
contents.  It's only a matter of luck that some people can
keep them working.
 
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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com