WHMurray@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (12/10/89)
>On this subject: how far should system administrators go to protect >users from this type of "letter bomb". It seems a bit heavy-handed to >purge ANY file from the queue with a filetype of EXEC, XEDIT, or MODULE. >Is it best to let the users fend for themselves, or overprotect them? A reasonable compromise is to protect them from surprise by arbitrarily renaming and re-typing the object so that they will not execute it by accident. William Hugh Murray, Fellow, Information System Security, Ernst & Young 2000 National City Center Cleveland, Ohio 44114 21 Locust Avenue, Suite 2D, New Canaan, Connecticut 06840