[Esd-l] macro scanner: defang instead of refuse

[John D. Hardin]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Graham Dunn wrote:

> ObSanitizer: Is there any advantage to mangling office filenames
> (do[tc],xls, etc) with the new Outlook "security" patches installed?

Probably not. But then, the entire design philosophy of this is
suspenders-and-belt.

I think it's acceptable to not mangle internal document attachments
while still mangling things from the world at large.

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