From: Laura Conrad <lconrad@world.std.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Making Gnus more worm-safe
Date: 05 May 2000 16:49:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kh7itws4t9l.fsf@acme47.nineco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "05 May 2000 12:47:33 +0200"
>>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
Per> 1. Gnus already asks.
Per> 2. Gnus shows the code before executing it.
Per> 3. Compared to MS Outlook, there is a lot fewer Gnus users, and they
Per> are typically more experienced. This makes it hard for a
Per> virus/worm to propagate.
I agree with all of these points, but I don't think defaults should be
designed on the assumption that the gnus user population is going to
remain the same as it is now. I think one of the things we're working
towards is improving the interface and the documentation to make it
easier for more people (and therefore a different population of
people) to use gnus.
That being said, I don't think Windows would have the email virus
problem it does if the default thing that happened when users clicked
on a program attachment was that the source code to the program was
displayed in another window.
--
Laura (mailto:lconrad@world.std.com , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ )
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-05 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-05 5:45 Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 7:14 ` Pavel Janík ml.
2000-05-05 9:30 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 7:23 ` William M. Perry
2000-05-05 9:39 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 10:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-05 10:52 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 8:21 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-05 9:10 ` Bjørn Mork
2000-05-05 9:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-05 10:14 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-05 11:05 ` Bjørn Mork
2000-05-05 11:52 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-05 18:07 ` Felix Lee
2000-05-05 19:28 ` Bruce Stephens
2000-05-05 20:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-06 19:26 ` Michael Harnois
2000-05-06 21:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-06 7:25 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 9:40 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 10:14 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-06 7:28 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-06 10:41 ` Bud Rogers
2000-05-05 10:47 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-05-05 14:11 ` Laura Conrad
2000-05-05 20:49 ` Laura Conrad [this message]
2000-05-08 0:15 ` Brian May
2000-05-08 13:57 ` Alan Shutko
2000-05-08 17:20 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-08 6:48 ` Soeren Laursen
2000-12-04 4:21 ` Greg Stark
2000-12-04 19:16 ` Prefer text/x-emacs-lisp to application/x-emacs-lisp? Raja R Harinath
2000-12-05 11:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-05-08 14:32 ` Making Gnus more worm-safe Toby Speight
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