Re: Why plain-text rule is necessary on the LUG mailing list was -> Re: A reminder and request to all LUG members
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Debayan Banerjee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Why is improving one's communication skills a lower priority and, tooling around it a higher one ? Take a real life scenario - if you had something very important to say, you'd move heaven and earth to make yourself heard would you not ? Why should it be different when it comes to a mailing list if your point was so important ? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss