allowed file extensions for attachments

[GregLocock]

Please could we have .m files - Matlab and Octave, and .sci and .sce for Scilab (not that that gets used much)

 

[IRstuff]

For that matter, why is there even a limitaion on the file type, aside from maybe executables; even PowerPoint files should be allowed, as should Python extensions.

 

[Eufalconimorph]

Since .zip is allowed, everything is allowed. Even if it weren't, you can always change file extensions to an allowed value & note what to change them back to in the post (though this is annoying, it proves the futility of allowing only selected file extensions)! As proof, I've attached a random Windows executable (part of the intermediate build process of a program I'm working on) by renaming it to .txt.

 

[GregLocock]

So in reality it adds a tiny bit of security, in that deploying the virus now takes an extra step.

 

[Jon]

Hi

Those file types have now been added.

Jon