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

[Alan Cox]

> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
> > 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.

Nice theory but netscape, mozilla, and most versions of pine tend to make
a mess of patch files sent plain