What is "Queued"?

[RoboWizard]

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

[Guest]

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

[Phos_four_dots]

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]

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

[Guest]

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