Re: OT: Virii on vger.kernel.org lists

[J . A . Magallon]

On 20010801 Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
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>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
>> 
>> > 	Better than that, simply strip all non-text MIME attachments,
>> > or bounce the messages containing them.  End of story.
>> 
>> That has the rather stupid effect of also killing gzip/bzip2ed patches
>> that come to the list. Survey says: BZZZZZT!
>
>Don't use attachments on l-k. If patch is small - include it in the body.
>If it isn't - post URL.
>

That is the always repeated answer. I could get a web page at some box at the
University, but there are many people that have not a permanent address. Going
to the mess of using a ISP-provided web page is a pain. Instead of bzip your
patch and send it to the list you have to go through bizarre http interfaces
to manage your web page (tell me about a ISP that lets you telnet/ssh/ftp to your
account).

I do not see why a bzipped patch is so bad. The only person I was aware he won't 
read anything but plain text is Linus (and now some on this thread look with
the same feeling).

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