POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : new news client : Re: new news client Server Time
11 Oct 2024 07:11:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: new news client  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 26 Jan 2008 10:44:14
Message: <479b554e@news.povray.org>

> executables are blocked in the proxy server.  You don't get a chance to 
> save as anything, all you get is a standard blocked screen or 
> time out in the case of ftp.  I actually downloaded the Windows version of 
> Thunderbird yesterday and zipped with the same name plus zip sufix.
> Well, it turns out that Gmail identified it as Mime type application/zip 
> and the proxy either got that or simply scanned the whole name for exe and
> found it.

FYI, GMail doesn't let you send exes, and checks the *contents* of zip 
files for exes.


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