filename rules questions/suggestions

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 25 September 2003 8:46 pm, Bob Jones wrote:

> 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?

I completely agree with your proposal.

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

Bob and Antony stand with open ears.....  :)

Antony.

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