outlook express attaachments

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Every person I know is screaming about this:

outlook will not send or receive message with attachment
files with certain extensions: exe and even jpeg. i
understand why but this is stupid to be so just do it
without giving the user the option to allow these file
extensions. I own my computer not microsoft!

I read the edit your reistry fix on microsoft's site -
but that is way scary for an average user.

i now wish i had not updated my microsoft software

i have norton's internet security, updated every day, so
why does microsoft block files i choose to send and
recieve

is there any other fixes other than editing the registry??