I love IP Tables....

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Personally, I'd rather take the approach of instead of trying to
>> determine whether something going through the mail server is bad or
>> good code, that just anything that's executable gets destroyed on the
>> way through.  That'd save a lot of clueless Windows users quite
>> easily. 

Sebastian Gurovich:
> It can be a nuisance Tim that one can´t send bin file attachments
> through gmail. AFAIK hotmail still allows it, if you re-name the file
> extension, first.

Bah!  They still play the file naming game...  Off all the dumb ways to
do it...

E-mail really isn't a file transfer mechanism, but for those with their
heart set on it, despite all the pitfalls, there's ways and means of
doing it.

What I proposed is a simple way of protecting most people, without them
having to constantly update recognition software.  Can it run, or not?
A simple determination.  Not trying to figure out, "Is it safe to run or
not?"  Something that's next to impossible to get right.

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