Hello Modelers and Model Users:

Our laboratory's IT-specialist has been asked by people higher up in
USDA-ARS to filter-out (destroy without delivering) any e-mails that have
attachments that might harbor excutables with viruses.  We will no longer
be receive ANY mail with *.exe, *.com or *.scr attachments.  Due to the
volume of virus-carrying messages, our local e-mail server will not be
advising us which messages were filtered nor advising the sender.

At the moment, the USDA policy appears to be a "recommendation" not a
requirement, but I imagine most ARS labs will adopt similar e-mail
filtering.

I would suggest as a general practice for modelers that attachments be
sent either zipped or with the extension renamed (e.g., to "exx").

Best regards,
Jeff White

Jeffrey W. White, Plant Physiologist
Environmental and Plant Dynamics Research
U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, USDA-ARS
4331 E Broadway Rd
Phoenix, AZ  85040-8834

  phone  602-437-1702  ext. 268;  fax  602-437-5291
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