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Old 27th Feb 2008, 21:14
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I have had to resort to what AA has said, upload to a site and paste the link...

My Uni mail server will let teachers send all types of attachments, however, i sent myself a Maple XML the other day, and it blocked it... Must be a two tier system, not sure what damage an xml could do though? All i can send is Word and PDF...

The thing about the origional post i dont get is...

Wont spammers just start chaning the extension... But on my restricted XP account at Uni i cant change file types, not sure if this applies to business desktops, suppose its down to the business but most would just be similar to a guest, wouldnt they?

Surprised by now there is not some clever system that can open a zip, scan it for virus, or bad file names, and block or forward on...
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