full-disclosure - FD should block attachments

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: FD should block attachments

--On Friday, April 02, 2004 01:16:24 AM -0500 Poof <admin@...dessmoon.org> 
wrote:

> Yeah... I've got Dialup and don't see a problem with the attachments.
>
> Heck. Emailing it to everybody rather than hosting the file(s) is better
> for me as I dislike hosting files on my own webspace.
>
How considerate of you.

Did you ever consider that people in some parts of the world pay by the 
byte or by the time they're online, and attachments, especially large ones 
*and* html email cost them money personally?

Not everyone in the world has the choices that some people assume are 
universally available.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu