[boost] Re: Attachments stripping

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-02 18:17:40

David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> so maybe it should be really left blank? The set of reasonable extension is
>> hard to guess in advance (at least .diff, .patch, .log, .out are possible,
>> but who knows...)
>
> I think the goal is to prevent viral intrusion and unreasonably large
> downloads.  That said, we probably have enough safeguards in place
> with the "first-post-moderated" policy and posting size limits that
> you're probably right.  As long as HTML is still being converted to
> plaintext, I don't forsee any problems.
>
> Objections to clearing the MIME type filter field, anyone?

OK, it's been cleared.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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