[Mailman-Developers] SCRUBBER Question
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Sat Sep 25 01:07:33 CEST 2004
At 6:04 PM -0400 2004-09-24, Robby Griffin wrote:
>> Because leaving it as a ".doc" file is dangerous.
>
> Get real. It changes the extension not because .doc files are dangerous
> but because the sender simply failed to use Mailman's idea of the proper
> MIME type for a .doc file.
Leaving it as a ".doc" file when the MIME bodypart type does not
match the claimed extension *is* dangerous.
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