At 12:38 PM 8/5/02, David W. Tamkin wrote:
>There may be only one award per day, but there's a candidate born every minute.
This one is from a few days ago, I've been out... but there is a .edu
site which is blocking anything that has any reference to a filename,
even if it's inline MIME, which has more than one dot in the filename:
>>Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:38:09 -0600 (MDT)
>>From: [postmaster]
>>Subject: Re: virus detected in Mj2 response ?!?
>>In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020804211508.02b225a0@mail.attbi.com>
>>Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208050228140.29188-100000@everest.cs.du.edu>
>>MIME-Version: 1.0
>>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>>
>>Hello,
>> While our MailScanner blocked the attachment as noted below, the
>>subscriber did receive a message letting them know that _something_ was
>>blocked. You're correct that the scanner's issue is with multiple
>>periods (attempting to keep people from clicking on filename.txt.exe when
>>MS Windows hides the .exe extention) - we need to modify our rules such
>>that only attachments are blocked when the final extention is .exe, .com,
>>.vbs, Etc.
>>
>>[snip]
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