From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Du9hp-0008Aw-RI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:01:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6HDxlAk000734; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:59:47 GMT Received: from longlandclan.hopto.org (202-47-55-78.adsl.gil.com.au [202.47.55.78]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6HDw4xa013242 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:58:05 GMT Received: (qmail 21378 invoked by uid 210); 17 Jul 2005 23:58:41 +1000 Received: from 10.0.0.251 by www (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(10.0.0.251):. Processed in 0.096363 secs); 17 Jul 2005 13:58:41 -0000 Received: from beast.redhatters.home (HELO ?10.0.0.251?) (10.0.0.251) by 192.168.5.1 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2005 23:58:40 +1000 Message-ID: <42DA640D.1070401@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:58:37 +1000 From: Stuart Longland Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Hello References: <42D649F8.7060309@gentoo.org> <1121351341.26200.5.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <42D679E2.5010708@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42D679E2.5010708@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 OpenPGP: id=63264AB9; url=http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/gpgkey.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigAD03397F034EFB58BE708E5A" X-Archives-Salt: 3fe10c54-724a-427c-a830-2ad441c48ad7 X-Archives-Hash: a5538a1751575d0463ae5ecd817c1376 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigAD03397F034EFB58BE708E5A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Simon Stelling wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >>Filtering the lists leads to a slippery slope. What happens when you >>start getting false positives? > > > True, but why not filtering binary attachments? *If* you have to send an > attachment to these lists, it should either be plain text or your > gpg-signature. Why allow attachments at all? Most of us, if we have something to share, can stick it up on a little bit of webspace for people to download at their leisure. This method is also more efficient too... as those who aren't interested don't end up having to download it regardless, and also, base64 encoded files are always slightly larger than the equivalent binary file. Certainly, it should be safe to block *.{exe,com,bat,pif,zip}. Very few viruses pick file formats other than those listed... and those are ones rarely used on Linux. (.zip is about the most common of the lot... the rest are Windows-specific) -- ____ _ Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter) / _ \ ___ ___ __| |__ __ __ Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs - (_) \ / \ ; \(__ __)/ \ / \ Developer \ // O _| / /\ \ | | | /\ | /\ | / / \ /__| / \ \ | | | \/ | \/ | (___/ \____/|_; |_| \_/ \__/ \__/ http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter --------------enigAD03397F034EFB58BE708E5A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC2mQQuarJ1mMmSrkRArNmAJ9BU6Pn7BFRDAaVQ9KX7Igc6ZDfgwCfb1OF 9nMdYoqgylxPPVJkVoqhYlw= =5ATX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigAD03397F034EFB58BE708E5A-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list