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Gmail: Not an agent of piracy
by Catonic at 3:31 pm EDT, Apr 7, 2005 |
Just discovered something interesting; gmail won't allow you to recieve RAR files. I had the occasion to need to recieve a RAR file with some documentation in it and discovered, much to my dismay, that gmail blocked the arbitrary extension ".rar". I changed the file to .tar, which passed through unimpeded, thus showing that no file-type detection is being used. Quite disturbing for those who use RAR for things other than piracy. |
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RE: Gmail: Not an agent of piracy
by Shannon at 4:02 pm EDT, Apr 7, 2005 |
Catonic wrote:
] Just discovered something interesting; gmail won't allow you
] to recieve RAR files. I had the occasion to need to recieve a
] RAR file with some documentation in it and discovered, much to
] my dismay, that gmail blocked the arbitrary extension ".rar".
] I changed the file to .tar, which passed through unimpeded,
] thus showing that no file-type detection is being used.
]
] Quite disturbing for those who use RAR for things other than
] piracy. I think its anti-viral, not anti piracy :
http://www.gmailforums.com/lofiversion/index.php/t5328.html |
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