[free-sklyarov] OT: [postmaster at eth.net: Mail Delivery Status Notification]

[Ken Brown]

"A. Melon" wrote:

[...]
 
> Would someone please inform the recipient listed in the bounce message
> below, and his/her postmaster that GPG signatures in RFC 2015 MIME
> encoded form are not hazardous attachements?

And posted a failure message:

> has been stripped of all/certain attachments by DishnetDSL Mail server due
> to security reasons.
> 
> DishnetDSL allows only the following attachments:
> 
> 1. .doc
> 2. .txt
> 3. .xls
> 4. .ppt
> 5. .pdf
> 6. .zip
> 
> Message contains attachments: ATT

from wonderful Dishnet who don't seem to realise that .doc, .ppt and
.xls, being in effect executable code, *are* hazardous attachments.

Of course, I strongly support the removal of *all* attachments and the
limitation of all email to ASCII text, or just possibly EBCDC between
consenting mainframes in private. Eschew all attachments. You know it
makes sense.

Ken