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From: psz at maths.usyd.edu.au (Paul Szabo)
Subject: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..

Richard M. Smith <rms@...puterbytesman.com> wrote:

> ... sending out executables as attached files ... is unacceptable. ...
> ... to send around executables, please ZIP them up first.

and Jeroen Massar <jeroen@...ix.org> responded:

> Hint for the new generation of virusmakers: Zip thou virii ;)

Advice too late:
  gibe.b
  lentin
  mimail
  sobig.e
seem to have done just that...

Sending executables, or executables within ZIP archives (or any ZIP
archives? or any archives?) is unacceptable. As stated in another thread,
SMTP was meant for short, human-readable plain-text messages; anything else
is a perversion.

Cheers,

Paul Szabo - psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au  http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics  University of Sydney   2006  Australia