niall at linux.ie wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:29:55PM +0100, Colm Buckley wrote:
>>>>>>And while I'm here - a little OT rant about gmail. I wanted to mail
>>>myself a Windows executable from somebody else's PC, using dialup.
>>>[...]
>>>>>>>>Consider the alternative; that GMail *did* allow the conveyance of
>>executable files, zipped or no. How long before some enterprising
>>virus writer started to use GMail as a delivery vector?
>>>>>>Yes - I know why they do it. Doesn't stop it being annoying though :-(
>>>rename the .zip to .piz and it works ok. beat my head against that one
myself. there are gmail extensions that turn the account into a disk drive.
moylan
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