Re: [MacPerl] Attachments (was: Password Dialog)

[Dennis Little <dennis.j.little@lmco.com>]

>Dennis Little:
>> I do favor allowing long messages which would give room for a reasonably
>> long message as well as a script in text format to be posted.  I don't
>
>My preference would be for scripts to be included as part of the message
>itself; this being a Perl list I hope we're not sharing binary only files
>:-) and this would allow me to ensure that the script doesn't get separated
>from the message at some point in time!

This sounds good provided there are no occurances of those special
characters that won't go over the net in text files -- maybe I write a
script that finds all the option-f's and replaces them with something else
- the option-f won't go over the net very nicely.

>> I personally favor not allowing enclosures as they can contain
>> nasty things like the 9805 worm or other.
>
>Which is the "9805 worm"?

Please don't feel like I'm picking on you but I take this part EXTREMELY
seriously.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE AUTOSTART 9805 WORM IS, IMMEDIATELY GO TO
HTTP://WWW.MACINTOUCH.COM/HKVIRUS.HTML.

This Worm/Virus has been causing some VERY serious problems including on
commercial CD's.  I've been fortunate not to get it but I do mostly
database stuff using 4D and know some that have learned the hard way to
make backups after the data file was erased or worse.

>My understanding of enclosures is that text enclosures may harbor MS macro
>viruses.  Enclosures sent through MS Outlook/Outlook Express, or Netscape
>Navigator clients __on PCs or Solaris__ could trigger a Mime tag problem if
>you haven't updated your client.  Binary enclosures are subject to all the
>standard virus warnings, etc...

I'm not sure of this but there's a simple way to fix that problem -- revert
to Word 5.1 or upgrade to Word 98 and have it notify you before running a
macro.  Other than that, I'm ignorant when it comes to most other things
that can be sent in a text enclosure as I use Eudora and won't switch to an
MS product since Eudora does such a nice job in my opinion.

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