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Re: st: Attachments: A Big No


From   Raphael Fraser <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Attachments: A Big No
Date   Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:59:33 -0500

My apologies. I am one of the culprit who sent an attachment. I 
simply was not aware.

Raphael

On 8/5/05, Richard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 07:40 PM 8/5/2005 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
> >In two cases today, people sent attachments with their postings.
> >
> >The Statalist FAQ is totally explicit, and I would have hoped
> >totally clear, on this matter:
> 
> I'll add that my campus antivirus software added a bunch of messages like
> this to those messages:
> 
> WARNING! POSSIBLE VIRUS FILE ATTACHMENT RENAMED FOR YOUR PROTECTION!
> 
> followed by a couple of paragraphs of further warning.  Luckily I had no
> idea what the answer was to that question, so it wouldn't have mattered
> even if I had not realized it was a legitimate message.  :)
> 
> If you happen to have control of your own web page - one thing I often do
> is "hide" files on the web.  You can then give people links if you want
> them to see what you are talking about.
> 
> As noted, the FAQ says "Statalist software may trap these formatted messages
> or attachments without sending an error message to you."  Obviously the
> trap does not always work - is there a way to improve this?
> 
> 
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