[Tutor] Request response [virus warning / automatically strippingout MIME attachments?]

[ali]

> Folks, should we institute something like a filter on attachments?  The
> new version of the mailing system software does offer the option of
> automatically stripping all non-ascii MIME attachments; I hadn't enabled
> it yet, but am considering doing so.  There is also an option for
> automatically stripping HTML from messages.
>
> What do people think about this?  If there are no objections, I'll start
> enabling the MIME/HTML filtering to prevent anything like this happening.

i will for sure appreciate it... i've been regularly receiving emails very
unlikely to come from the "real" members of this mailing list... :)