Since this group is moderated, I trust that you can easily spot a spam, and disallow it.

As for viruses, assuming the kind that sends off itself, I don't remember encountering them for a long, long time. I believe the reason is that mail servers are now set up to filter them. Besides, I believe you can also easily identify them.

At any rate, how about asking other members for their thoughts on this?

kb

Ong Yong Peng wrote thus at 16:52 28/11/2009:

>Dear Ven. Kumara,
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>our group has always disable attachments. This is to prevent unnecessary spamming, as you would understand, that not all members use a free unlimited email account like Gmail and Yahoo!. In addition, disabling attachments also prevent the spread of virus through emails.
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>I understand Yahoo! now provides a separate Attachments section, which has a size of 100GB! This 100GB space limit is shared with the Photos section. However, each email may only contain attachment(s) of less than 15MB.
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>The Files section has a limit of 100MB, which is 1000 times less than the 100GB space provided for the Attachments and Photos sections. I am just not sure if we should enable attachments since Yahoo! Groups does not currently scan attachments for viruses on stored attachments.
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>http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/releases/releases-781403.html
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>
>metta,
>Yong Peng.
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>--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Kum�ra Bhikkhu wrote:
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>Are attachments allowed on this group? I mean technically, as in: Does the group settings allow it (though now Yahoo places the files on a server)?
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