GMail is less than useful for sending attachments, assuming they still do stuff like blocking .zip files containing executables. I can't use my GMail account to communicate with customers at all.

They do, recently they even started blocking 7z...

Rename .zip to .zpi or .izp or pzi, ... then it works.

With less than useful I agree (switched to fastmail...)

Me too. I use send zip files to my customers every now and then.

This is another example of them, subtly forcing you to use google drive for files.

Yeah this is a conspiracy, definitely not for preventing people from sending malware around.

If you are sending executables to your customers and you're not signing them or they are not checking the signature every time, you are doing your customers a disservice and they are bound to get exploited sooner or later. If you teach them to open executables from mail they will and it won't be limited to yours.

Sigh. Yes, they're compiled here. Yes, they're signed. Yes, some people actually do know what they're doing. No, executables distributed in zipfiles are not now, and never have been, a prime vector for malware distribution.

Which part of my comment did I say that I am sending executables?

Confusion comes from this:

> Me too. I use send zip files to my customers every now and then.

That `Me too` is in response to

> GMail is less than useful for sending attachments, assuming they still do stuff like blocking .zip files containing executables. I can't use my GMail account to communicate with customers at all.

from GP.

Well you're wrong. And you even downvoted me. My point still stands over your wrong assumptions.

What ? I am not saying I buy that logic. I am even trying to explain where the confusion comes from and in doing so showing you didn't explicitly write what's attributed to you (sending .exe files in archive files).

It happens a lot in threaded discussions here that a parent's opinions or points get carried over to child posts and then grand-children posts who seems to assume every answers only adds up details to reinforce the opinion instead of nuances.

I downvoted you for being a dick in the way you respond to the comment wrongly assuming you send .exe files. That is my only assumption here.

Oops sorry. I thought I was responding to GP. His response was not very polite, dismissing my comment as a conspiracy theory and assumed (wrongly) I was sending exe files.

And then I was accused of being a dick. Perhaps I should detach before I give people more wrong impression about me.

OT, but how can you tell who downvoted you?

you can't (well, unless they tell you).