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• To: Martin Probst <martin@x...>
• Subject: Re: Fw: Re:
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:39:08 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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I personally believe a list like this should disallow mail with _any_ 
attachments. A bounce reply to the sender would be a courtesy - not that 
most senders of such mail deserve any - to the few innocents.

Bob

Martin Probst wrote:
 >>Could someone that runs the xml-dev list please take steps to squelch the
 >>spam/viruses being sent to the list?  Or at the very least stop allowing
 >>these type of attachments?
 >
 >
 > Plus, while dealing with that, you could set up the mailing list to
 > return an error message when swallowing something like that. It
 > currently silently ignores messages with zip attachments. I think it's
 > still bad style to just eat up messages if they aren't clearly spam or
 > viruses.
 >
 > Martin

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