[liberationtech] Attachments

[Brian Conley]

I can understand the concern, however I'd ask whether mailman can be
configured to deliver a reply message to the sender explaining why sending
attachments is dangerous and how it is used by bad actors to deliver
viruses and malware.

I'm happy to write a draft of such a text.

Brian
On Aug 1, 2012 8:29 AM, "Matt Mackall" <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 08:38 +0200, Marcin de Kaminski wrote:
> > Could we please agree on not sending attachments with emails on the
> libtech list? Important information can be enclosed as plain text.
>
> I think it's unlikely that the org sending them is actually reading this
> list. Mailman can be configured to drop such attachments though.
>
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