Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

[Alex Snow]

I think the disabling of atachments will greatly hurt the list because we've
all had to atach a config file, text output, etc at some time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "'Georgina'" <gena at gena-j.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'


> Hi
>
> I don't understand your strong response.  Surely its in the list owner's
> interest to protect himself of accusations of being a spreader of
> viruses.  I know from personal experience.  BASHOnline was set up right
> >from the beginning to forward only plain text messages and deny the
> forwarding of attachments.  Gordon Keen announced on the accessuk list
> that I allowed the spreading of viruses which has had a devostating
> effect upon the list.
>
> There's no justification of html messages on this list that I can think
> of as we're discussing speech access to GNU/Linux interface.  How do you
> gain from sending or receiving html messages?  Please enlighten me.
>
>
> Gena
>
>
>
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> >No way!
> >
> >Windows users should employ a anti virus strategy. The responsibility
> >lies with the recipient of the mail, and not the list service.
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> >Just my opinion!
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: 'Georgina' [mailto:gena at gena-j.net]
> >> Sent: 2002 May 14 12:48 PM
> >> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> >> Subject: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >> Hi All
> >>=20
> >> Because of the use of html messages being used to transmit Windows
> >> viruses, I wondered if folks would agree to having list messages
> >> restricted to plain text only?
> >>=20
> >> The list owner will act upon whatever the consensus is.
> >>=20
> >> Gena
> >>=20
> >> Have your say:
> >> Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org
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> >> Please don't send me MS Word documents, see
> >> http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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