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From: Hanak David <dhanak@inf.bme.hu>
Subject: Re: Saving attachments with a leading dot
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:44:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fzill0ku.fsf@maui.hanak.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eky7vzv7.fsf@defun.localdomain>

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:

> |    In general, the receiving MUA should not name or place the file such
> |    that it will get interpreted or executed without the user explicitly
> |    initiating the action.

[...]

> Gnus doesn't prevent creating startup files.  We could:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Gnus doesn't extract attachments
automatically, does it?  And when you do extract an attachment
inentionally, Gnus *always* offers you the filename for editing.  I guess
we can call that "explicitly initiating the action".  And beyond that, I
don't really see why Gnus should *prevent* anything.

Perhaps an additional confirm request for certain filenames would do no
harm, but if you do that, also create a variable
'gnus-article-confirm-save-to-suspicious-files-p', because I, for one,
don't want Gnus to be asking that question.

David



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-25  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-23 23:39 Jesper Harder
2003-09-24 10:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-25  3:24   ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-25  4:22     ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-25  5:49       ` Jochen Küpper
2003-09-29  3:28         ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-02 18:07           ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-10-02 19:56             ` Jochen Küpper
2003-10-03  1:35             ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-03 14:04               ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-10-02 18:10         ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 13:53 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 14:40   ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 15:11     ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 16:03       ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 16:16         ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 17:45           ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 15:48 ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-24 16:11   ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-25 14:40     ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-25  3:23   ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-25  8:44 ` Hanak David [this message]
2003-09-29  3:20   ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-17 17:31     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-10-18 16:43       ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-18 16:50         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-10-18 20:04           ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-18 23:17           ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-19 11:14             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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