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RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
April 8, 2009
Question

What is "Queued"?

  • April 8, 2009
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Hi there

When inserting an image into a post it's nearly instant. But if inserting an attachment (I just did this with a very tiny TXT file) I am seeing an indication of "Queued".

I'm assuming it's waiting in some queue, which seems reasonable, but is this somethiing akin to the avatars? Where we have to wait for a forum moderator to approve it?

advTHANKSance... Rick

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    Phos_four_dots
    Phos_four_dots
    Inspiring
    April 8, 2009

    I wondered the same thing after doing a test with a small *.mov file last night.

    The answer I got—posited by Dave Milbut and which makes sense—is that it was put in a queue to be scanned for malware.

    RoboWizard
    RoboWizardAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 8, 2009

    Thanks all!

    Interesting. I've never known a TXT file to cause issues.

    Then again, I suppose someone could theoretically rename something very malicious with an innocuous TXT extension. Can't fathom how that would do harm though as something would have to execute it.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    April 9, 2009

    All attached files get scanned. Doesn't matter what they are. Reasonable precaution in a weird world.

    A
    Anonymous
    April 8, 2009

    it's an automagic process, not like the avatars which i understand is manual. probably scanning for virii...

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