[Evolution] Is it just me?

[Mark Gordon]

On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 01:49 +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

> > Blocking all attachments would be a very bad idea IMHO. Stripping those
> > infamous attachments would at least save bandwidth and protect anyone
> > reading this list with MS clients. Simply rejecting those mails would
> > actually keep the list clean but has another bad impact. [1]
> 
> That's policy as decided by management and ITS. One AV vendor at least,
> Sophos, recommends banning all attachments

Ironically, banning all attachments would presumably include attached
gpg/pgp signatures, thereby defeating one of the few means of actually
verifying the authenticity of messages.

-Mark Gordon