From: Jorey Bump (listjoreybump.com)
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 08:24:13 CDT

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Covington, Chris wrote:

> I've noticed a lot of our business partners don't allow .zip either out
> of extreme caution or because of primitive filters which can't inspect
> zip content. What do you on these lists do?

I block all *.zip files on most of the sites I administer. I've only had
one client ask for the restriction to be removed. The others are happy
with renaming the extension to bypass the restriction.

It's a flawed approach in some ways, but there are no silver bullets
when fighting spam & viruses. You have to fill a catapult with pots,
pans, rotten fruit, flaming dung, musical instruments and assorted
barnyard animals.

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