One of the reasons for not notifying you when the trap works is so as
not to acknowledge to spammers that we exist. It seems to have
helped keep spam off the list these last ten years--watch all the spam
we are now going to receive!!
The attachments issue is related to the fact that we are running on Unix
using the blandest mail system we can think of so as to reach the maximum
number of people.
m.p.
Nick Cox wrote:
In essence, Statalist is run using majordomo software
as a courtesy operation by the Harvard School of Public
Health. I know nothing of the details, but I am
confident that
* if more were possible with majordomo
it would already be in use.
* no one concerned has any extra time that they
want to spend running Statalist; Marcello Pagano
and his colleagues already put in a great deal
of work, almost all behind the scenes, trouble-shooting
and so forth.
Nick
[email protected]
Richard Williams
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?
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
