"David McRitchie" wrote in message
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ALL of the postings with attachments you are currently seeing in the
Excel newsgroups ALL have viruses -- DO NOT OPEN.

Be suspicious of any posting that is 6 KB or higher, if it doesn't
look right -- don't open it.
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Attachments are basically only acceptable in binary newsgroups,
those that have "binary" in their newsgroup names. There are very
few exceptions to that and the Excel newsgroups are not an
exception.


Unless I'm mistaken (in which case I would appreciate being corrected!),
Outlook Express 6 doesn't allow you to block either:
1 messages larger than a certain file size (as opposed to number of lines);
or
2 messages with attachments.
This is a pity.