Small change re: attachments (ZIP files)

Discussion in 'Forum Announcements and Feedback' started by Daniel Mosquin, Aug 27, 2007.

  1. Daniel Mosquin

    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    I've set it so that newly-registered folks can't upload ZIP files. It shouldn't make too much of a difference for 99.9% of users on here, other than having one less attachment filetype on here that might seem threatening (since it asks to first be downloaded instead of opening in your browser window).
     
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    Michael F Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    I'd be happy to see them stopped, don't like clicking on them. They do strange things to my file manager.
     
  3. Daniel Mosquin

    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    Well, it's only contributors and people in particular groups (e.g., UBC Staff or students from some of the internal coursework forums) that can use these as attachments now. We use them on the staff internal forums from time to time, so I didn't remove it entirely.
     

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