2007-07-27 Please don’t use a computer

Today I wanted to send a friend a little script I’ve been written that should help him with it’s project. Well, sounds easy, isn’t it? I zipped it and pressed the send Button. But it’s not that easy nowadays. My friend uses the popular gmail.com domain to recieve Emails. But he did not get my mail. Instead of that I got a message back:

<d*********@gmail.com>: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[66.249.93.114] said:
552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment p39si1006039ugd (in reply to end of DATA command)

Wow, I’ve created an Illegal Attachment? If you wanna do as well just name it something.cmd and zip it to impress your friends. Okay, I thought, then I might send this directly via google mail myself. Then it should work, right? No, but another message popped up:

Great! Now I know that sending scripts with and to a google mail user just don’t work. Maybe they should establish a big fat disclaimer telling their users that using a computer can be a big fat “Unterfangen“.