Re: st: Attachments: A Big No

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 07:40 PM 8/5/2005 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
> In two cases today, people sent attachments with their postings.
>
> The Statalist FAQ is totally explicit, and I would have hoped
> totally clear, on this matter:
I'll add that my campus antivirus software added a bunch of messages like 
this to those messages:

WARNING! POSSIBLE VIRUS FILE ATTACHMENT RENAMED FOR YOUR PROTECTION!

followed by a couple of paragraphs of further warning.  Luckily I had no 
idea what the answer was to that question, so it wouldn't have mattered 
even if I had not realized it was a legitimate message.  :)

If you happen to have control of your own web page - one thing I often do 
is "hide" files on the web.  You can then give people links if you want 
them to see what you are talking about.

As noted, the FAQ says "Statalist software may trap these formatted messages
or attachments without sending an error message to you."  Obviously the 
trap does not always work - is there a way to improve this?


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