From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2003-01-07T16:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: attachment:ot  -was RE: A very  humour game


Gavin Sinclair [mailto:gsinclair@soyabean.com.au] wrote:
> 
> > 1. only text files are allowed w extension ".txt" to be obvious (if 
> > it's a ruby program, you have to rename it [and examine it 
> -it might 
> > contain a "delete all files command" ;-]).
> 
> Why not allow .rb files?

actually, I was just fishing for the xtreme (ly paranoid).

it's a safety net for outlook users. the code runs automatically if you
double-click on it :-)

 
> > 2. maximum of 50kb per mail (in fact, if this were a ruby 
> script, it's 
> > _terribly_ long and 99% of the members wouldn't mind 
> reading it -but 
> > they would sure mind the bandwidth! :-)
>
> 50kb is better than no limit, but I think everyone would 
> agree that attachments of this size should be web-hosted 
> instead.  I see no need to allow posts larger than 20kb.

again, 50k is my extreme value.

I agree. In fact, 10k limit is fine for me, too.

> 
> Gavin

kind regards,
-botp