filename rules questions/suggestions

[Bob Jones]

Antony Stone wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2003 7:57 pm, Bob Jones 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.

Okay, let's assume for the moment that there *is* some sort of
protection you can receive from this rule.  Assuming that, then what
about the solutions I presented to only block the bad extensions instead
of any combo of letters for those who do choose to use that rule?

However, after reading what you had to say, I also am interested in
someone informing me of just what this rule protects us from.

Thanks,
Bob