[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Binaries on freeciv lists

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:22:53PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
 
> 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.
> 
> -- John

The complaints have been about *large* attachments of any kind:
viruses, but also large Freeciv patches.  They come from people
with slow/costly connections.  So I think filtering out large
attachments is good enough.  It doesn't hurt to filter out
attachments by MIME type or extension.

-- 
Reinier