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From: |
Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
Subject: |
Content-type restrictions |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:52:13 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Yesterday we tried having the mailing list software (Mailman 2.1.2)
reject mail with application/octet-stream attachments. The Mailman
user interface is a bit vague; it turned out that the virus mails
still get to the mailing lists, with attachments stripped. This is
perhaps a worse situation: virus mails are smaller now, but cannot
easily be detected and filtered anymore.
As a more draconian measure we have decided to restrict email to
simple text/plain (or text/html). Emails that have mutipart/mixed are
rejected until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Greetings,
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org
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