Klarinet Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 1999/05

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music programs
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 07:46:19 -0400

From: Roger Shilcock
<roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
> *Some* kinds of text seem to be safe. Are there any Acrobat viruses
yet?
> Roger S.

Not that I know of - but a pdf file is not plaintext. You have to
execute Acrobat to read a pdf file. It's analogous to executing Word to
read a doc file.

Plaintext is safe. Anything else created on the client (mail reader)
side is suspect, especially in a public forum. That's why people should
not execute or open _anything_ other than straight text files on this
mailing list. I try to filter the possibly dangerous stuff out
automatically, but as evidenced a few days ago the automatic filtering
can be fooled occasionally.
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Mark Charette@-----.org/clarinet
"Cards by Aimee", http://www.sneezy.org/Aimee
"The phenomenon is too variable for proper study" often
translates from "I don't know how to get musicians to do
anything twice the same" - A. H. Benade

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