Re: Why plain-text rule is necessary on the LUG mailing list was -> Re: A reminder and request to all LUG members
Debayan Banerjee <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.user-groups.linux.kolkata |
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2009/3/22 Indranil Das Gupta <[email protected]>: > Hi, > <snipped> >> Is this plain-text rule absolutely necessary? > > Yes it is. Please read up #4 from here http://www.expita.com/nomime.html > 1) Most people dont use email clients like outlook, evolution etc so the mails never download on the machines. 2) Do all the vulnerabilities also affect Linux systems? I guess most of the vulnerabilities in #4 affect Windows machines. 3) *Many* other mailing lists do not have this limitation. 4) Cant we instead employ some firewall that scrubs MIME/HTML from a mail and then forwards it to a list. I know ISI Kolkata does it via the Cisco Ironport firewall system. If possible please do this. I say lets expose people to vulnerabilities if it means more discussion on this list. -- Be Intelligent, Use GNU/Linux http://debayanin.googlepages.com/ http://debayan.wordpress.com http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss-PMNjqutUrVNkNBGiPgg+Odi2O/[email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss