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Re: Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia

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• Subject: [mg53956] Re: [mg53929] Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:15:19 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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A Mathematica notebook is just a text file, after all.  So a good 
precaution would be to open such a downloaded notebook in a text editor, 
e.g., Notepad on Windows, before ever attempting to open the notebook in 
Mathematica.

David Bailey wrote:
> This looks interesting, but how will you avoid the possibility that 
> someone will upload a malicious notebook? I suppose it is a case of let 
> the downloader beware?
> 
> David Bailey
> dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
> 
> 

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