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Re: [OT]New Virus in the wild

From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:52:18 +0000
Subject: Re: [OT]New Virus in the wild

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:47:23PM +0000, agoodall@att.net wrote:
>If you need to send e-mail attachments to someone, send them an e-mail
asking 
>them to let you send it to them. Ask them to include an "okay" phrase
in your 
>e-mail.

It's _much_ better to put the attached item on a private web or ftp 
server instead - encoding an item for email transfer increases the size 
by 33%, and by your separating the large component the recipient can 
_choose_ whether and when to examine it.

Roger

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