[Mailman-Users] Re: Mime stripping in 2.1b3

[Will Yardley]

Christian J Hedemark wrote:
> On Saturday, September 14, 2002, at 04:12 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> >This is not how the mime filters in 2.1b3 seem to work.  List the 
> >types to be blocked.
 
> If we're taking votes here, I'm all for whitelists (block all MIME by 
> default, except that which is explicitly allowed).  I think in most 
> cases a whitelist will be shorter and easier to maintain than a 
> blacklist.

I agree 100%. Generally, there are only going to be a few types of
attachments you actually *do* want to permit.

-- 
Will Yardley
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