Wirt:

Why not ask the list for a mandate to strip all the attachments coming through
this list.

Olav.

Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Curt writes:
>
> > I don't see a problem with excluding all attachments on this kind of a list.
> >  AFAIK, attachments are just extra junk that is used when cut and paste
> can't
> >  be figured out.
>
> Reading over my own posting, it's easy to see that I wasn't clear enough. The
> problem with using understatement is that it is often too subtle and too
> easily misunderstood.
>
> In fact, I've become a fairly firm believer that all attachments should be
> stripped off of all email travelling through all public listserver/remailers
> -- and that the only safe way to conduct business anymore is to return to
> text-only files (no HTML, no VBS, no MIME encodings).
>
> Wirt Atmar