[AT] Attachments/HTML

[Edward Tabor]

What is wrong with allowing attachments, other than the fact that virii 
are carried on attachments?  My hope is that, all of us are intelligent 
enough not to open unsolicited attachments.  Many pieces of 
important/useful data could exchange hands more easily this way.

Ed

Robert Brooks wrote:

> Spencer;
>
> Given the available choices my vote would be convert everything to 
> plain text and enforce a small message size to limit what can be 
> attached.
>
> I guess this means Walt gets to keep his picture.  ;)
>
> Bob
>
>
> At 08:45 PM 2/12/04 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Well, it looks as if there may be a fly in the ointment.   I can do 
>> the following:
>>
>> Convert any message in HTML to plain text.
>> Reject/Discard messages with attachments
>>
>> I can NOT, however, simply strip attachments.   I can only block 
>> messages that have attachments.  Many email packages add attachments 
>> (i.e. HTML versions of a plain text messages, vcards, etc) without 
>> the operator explicitly asking the software to do it.  Therefore, I 
>> think stripping attachments may end up being problematic.   I can 
>> restrict size of the message however.   We could enforce a real low 
>> message size to limit large attachments/message size.
>>
>> I went ahead and forced the software to reject messages with 
>> attachments.  Let's see how this turns out.  I think we may have to 
>> allow attachment after all.
>>
>> Spencer
>>
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> Bob Brooks
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