[ILUG] unix mail script virus hole long before windows?

[Paul Jakma]

just reading some tanenbaum last night and a little point came up:
Postscript is a programming language and can do file I/O etc... and
his point was: mail clients might automatically run postscript
attachments through an interpreter.

so what happens if a postscript file that does whatever the postscript
equivalent of rm -rf ~/* gets run through ghostscript?

if the worst case: does this mean Unix has had a mail scripting hole
long long before Outlook+vb came along?

--paulj