Gmail and general attachments is a tough match..

Only today I came upon this little annoyance on Gmail, I tried to send a legal .exe file to a friend and then a .rar file to my own account and both messages returned with an "Illegal attachment" notice. The only file that Gmail accepted was a .zip file. I'm guessing it's all done for security reasons but it could n00bs a hard time sending some basic attachments on e-mails.. I know I was pissed the second time around. Oh well I still love my Gmail account as much ..