Message-ID: <14944.7863.965646.422632@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Date: 2001-01-13T09:24:07Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: R (and ESS) mailing lists : Binary attachments not allowed anymore
In order to prevent viruses being posted on the R (or ESS) mailing lists,
I've disallowed binary attachments (of the "octet-stream" kind)
as of 15 minutes ago.
BTW, the case of Jan.10 was a typcial "MS Outlook address book" one.
I've received automated e-mails from about 20 sites where the mail delivery
server auto-detected the virus and didn't deliver it to end-recipient.
I've also been told that these strong e-mail filters slow down e-mail
delivery considerably. Hence, it may not be wise for you to ask your
IT staff for the installation of such filtering...
Regards, and ``happy R-ing'',
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO D10 Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND
phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <><
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