filename rules questions/suggestions

[mikea]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:08:34PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:

> I believe the "double extension" rule is neither a layer of protection nor an
> important rule to have.   All it does is to stop people sending perfectly
> legitimate files to each other such as salesforecast.oct.xls

> If anyone else thinks the double extension rule adds something valuable to
> the standard "block these final extensions because they're dangerous" rules,
> I'd be very interested.

I had to disable the double extension rule because it's so frequently
used by engineering/design folks inside this agency and contractors
outside, sending files to one another as attachments.

Yes, I know. SMTP was not designed as a file transfer method, but
that is a separate rant which will come out once I've achieved the
correct temperature and pressure. At the moment both are below
the red line.

We don't really have an alternative solution that is acceptable to
all the participants, and so are stuck using SMTP as "least bad".

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Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964