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From: a.gietl at e-admin.de (Andreas Gietl) Subject: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source On Tuesday 19 August 2003 00:26, Drew Copley wrote: I think it may not be a good idea to send binaries to the list, because lot of companies run antivirus-gateways at their smtp-server and would reject the message, so the recipient would be cut off the information. Today sb sent a copy of the Win32/Nachi-Worm - as i requested - to the list. I got about 20 mails from av-mail-gateways. I did not expect to get the virus on - the - list and especially not sent via mail. Next time i gonna state that in my mail - i apologize for the Inconvenience todays nachi may have caused to you. > If anybody is stupid enough to run a binary file from here they deserve > any negative consequences which may result from that. > > Okay, I know other people are thinking that because it is just so true. > > This said, someone sent a copy of this lastest fixer msblast variant. I > appreciated that. But, proper netiquette says to not send binaries nor > pictures to internet lists (newsgroups or mailing lists). It is best to > send by url, such urls are very valuable. > > (Personally, I have never cared about binaries nor pictures being sent > as long as their size were small... It is just html email which I hate.) > -- e-admin internet gmbh Andreas Gietl tel +49 941 3810884 Ludwig-Thoma-Strasse 35 fax +49 (0)1805/39160 - 29104 93051 Regensburg mobil +49 171 6070008 PGP/GPG-Key unter http://www.e-admin.de/gpg.html
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