[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Binaries on freeciv lists

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, John Goerzen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We have recently had some Sircam documents mailed to Freeciv lists.
> On freeciv, it was requested to disable support for binary
> attachments, which effectively blocks the virulent (and large) part of
> those posts.  The same can be done for the rest of the lists if
> desired.  Let me know what you prefer and I'll be glad to configure
> the lists as appropriate.

Well from what i know email viruses can be in a non-binary format like VB
Script so filtering binary messages wouldn't be foolproof. It would also
stop people from posting gzipped patches. I dunno if this is possible but
this is what i propose:

Since the viruses are usually for the windows platform we should filter
out file attachments with the following filename extensions:

.vbs, .exe, .com, .bat, .cmd, .lnk, .doc

If anyone remembers of some executable file extension i can't remember
please say so.

Very large emails shouldn't be allowed either. If someone wishes to send a
big patch file they can upload it to the freeciv FTP site.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa