From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 03:53:53 EDT
--- Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote:
> According to Joaquin Cuenca Abela
> <e98cuenc@yahoo.com>:
> > >
> > > There is a size limit on the list that blocks
> > > message of over 10000
> > > lines. I don't plan to remove that limit.
> >
> > why?
>
> Simply because, due to the wondeful quality and
> security desing to
> some popular bugware that people insist on confusing
> with Internet
> e-mail clients, the list is getting bombed by some
> sort of virus code
> for proprietary environment, and some of them are
> properly masqueraded
> to make the list server think it comes from a
> legitimate user... even
> though that user use a clean mail agent.
>
> For me that is a good enough reason to keep that
> shield.
And these evil emails are bigger than 80k?
bigger than 100k? 200k? What is their size?
Almost 3 years ago Shawn raised the 40k limit to 80k
limit to leave pass bigger patches. We can also very
well raise it again to, say, 120k. I don't think that
this will open the door to evil emails...
> BTW, now that fjf committed the patch, the problem
> is solved.
>
> Hub
>
> PS: you should have received a bounce for the
> rejected e-mail.
Nope. I didn't get anything at all. Radio silence.
Cheers,
P.S.: Leave pass evil emails is bad. Block legal
emails is much worse IMO.
=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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