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Whilst I'm curious to know what the virus problem your referring to at JISC was I would suggest that the solution is not to try and mangle attachments and hold stuff till viruses are found. Viruses that rely on mail client bugs to misinterpret what is otherwise a legitimately formatted email. Many OE viruses only look like attachments to O/OE users. Face it OE sucks, we shouldn't nobble everyone elses fun because a few people fail to get a decent mail client, it isn't as though there aren't free mail clients available. As regards Word documents, are viruses still a problem? (You can tell I've been doing *nix for too long) I thought this was largely killed with the release of Word 97. I know a few weaknesses have been found since in Office's defences, but I've only seen the over spill of OE and IIS viruses from M$. I think for this group worms that spread by FTP should be the big worry. I still see a significant amount of scanning for port 21, and everything points to this being mainly a Linux problem. I think you might have more luck if you sell it as replacing attachments with a URL, and keep them on the server for a set period. Many mailing list admins would like that - aside from any virus problems it will shrink bandwidth usage on big lists (It still breaks any attempt to sign messages of course), whilst allowing people to get the attachment if they want it. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.