From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30780 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Making Gnus more worm-safe Date: 08 May 2000 10:15:48 +1000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87hfcdwnwi.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167267 10271 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:27:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:27:47 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D13ED051F for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 20:17:39 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB08689; Sun, 7 May 2000 19:17:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 07 May 2000 19:17:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA20036 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 19:16:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from lyell.csse.monash.edu.au (lyell.csse.monash.edu.au [130.194.64.41]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B26BD051F for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 20:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lyell.csse.monash.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 3752) id 915F2F364; Mon, 8 May 2000 10:15:48 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bmay/ In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "Fri, 05 May 2000 12:47:33 +0200" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30780 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30780 >>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen writes: Per> I object on the following grounds: I don't care either way, but I think another point is significant: 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, Per> and they are typically more experienced. This makes it hard Per> for a virus/worm to propagate. 4. You typically expect a LISP file to contain executable code, but normally wouldn't expect a *.DOC file to. Not only that, but some people send genuine doc files (some include unwanted features), and it is awkward for most end users to reconfigure the computer to safely display the file. Stupid! gs has had the -dSAFER option for how many years now? I am under the impression that the software manufacture in question doesn't care about security issues like this, or it would have been fixed by now. -- Brian May